Synonyms for Pussyfooting

Synonyms for "pussyfooting" (78 found)

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Closest matches (16)

all foursbickering boggling buncombe bunkum captious captiousness caviling chicane chicanery choplogic crawl crawling creep creeping

Noun(1 words)

delaying

Strong matches (23)

Related words (39)

nit pickingnit-pickingofficial jargonofficialese padding paltering parrying pettifoggery petty picayunepolitical doubletalkprevarication prowling quibbling scrabble scramble shifting shuffling sidestepping sidling

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slinking snaking sneaking stealing subterfuge tergiversation tippytoe tiptoe tiptoeing trichoschistic trichoschistism trifling trivial washingtonese worming

Noun(4 words)

prudence stall stalling tiptoeing

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

5 entries

behaviorcommunication strategygait strategy tactics

More specific

11 entries

ambiguous languagedelayingdelaying tacticsdelays dodging evading evasion hedging mincing stalling tiptoeing

Collocations

10 entries

political pussyfootingpussyfoot aroundpussyfooted responsepussyfooting approachpussyfooting around the issuepussyfooting behaviorpussyfooting stancepussyfooting strategypussyfooting tacticstrategic pussyfooting

Inflections

3 entries

pussyfooted pussyfootings pussyfoots

Derivations

3 entries

pussyfoot pussyfooted pussyfoots

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

He is pussyfooting around on our marriage.

Source: tatoeba (295896)

[…] spoke about homosexuality, with no pussyfootings like continence. He cited texts from St Paul and Leviticus to show that it was a sin and warned them not to be swayed […]

Source: wiktionary

Pussyfooting