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[ UK /pˈʊsɪfˌʊt/ ]
[ US /ˈpʊsiˈfʊt/ ]
VERB
  1. to go stealthily or furtively
    ..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house

How To Use pussyfoot In A Sentence

  • Let's do it in a sensible way and stop pussyfooting around.
  • Without pussyfooting around, I can state that Catwoman is a catastrophe.
  • I replied that there are just a few issues where we have to stop pussyfooting around, and free speech was one of them.
  • They come to us all, the aches and irritations of age such as backpain, arthritis, children and ads where emollient voiceovers pussyfoot around a condition they euphemise as ‘blocked wind’.
  • Richard McManus says the same thing but pussyfoots around criticising Steve directly. Archive 2006-02-01
  • We're simply pussyfooting around this issue instead of dealing with it.
  • Burns pussyfooted around every other sensitive topic – in some cases ignoring some very inconvenient facts. Turkish Media: Government Tools
  • During the past three years of his fur-tuitous career, Cooper has churned out a veritable cat-alogue raisonné of photos taken on weekly jaunts around the neighborhood, during which he pussyfoots through brambles, along fence-tops, and under cars armed with a camera collar that snaps shots every two minutes. ARTINFO: Is This Cat a Great Photographer? The Seattle Art Scene's Feline Phenomenon
  • And yes, it is an absolutely pretentious concept, but I admire Smith for making a bold claim and not pussyfooting around.
  • As the president, his staff and, most significantly, his frequently deranged First Lady pussyfooted around the paneled rooms of his West Coast ranch compound, eavesdropping on each other and then communicating in whispers the latest fragment of update, it began to feel like one of those Kurosawa dramas about feudal lords -- the Macbeth-based Throne of Blood, say, courtesy of FOX. Tom Gliatto: Beyond 24
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