pussyfoot

Example Sentences

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“It makes them mental, every time you bring up the adoption, or your birth parents, or anything like that. They start pussyfooting around and being so careful, like, ‘Now, Jonah .

From Literature

And I said, ‘Why am I pussyfooting around?’

From Literature

He took me aside and said sternly, “You can’t pussyfoot it.”

From Salon

Perhaps – nah, let's stop pussyfooting and call it like it is.

From Salon

“The government is pussyfooting around the ESM, which is a very, very small piece in a much larger problem that has to do with overall European economic governance,” he said.

From Reuters