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tiptoeing

verb as in steal

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The Massachusetts-born pianist was equally adept at attacking hard-charging electric fusion with his band Return to Forever, in stadiums full of prog rock enthusiasts, as he was at tiptoeing through Mozart concertos with meditative precision.

From Time

As the world tiptoes toward normalcy, I asked what they want to do after this work-from-home experiment ends.

From Fortune

One or two, it seemed to me, were actually still tiptoeing “en pointe.”

So, like real pumas, the women who waited to see are just tiptoeing away, catlike, from the battle.

Others are tiptoeing around the second item, as Elizabeth launches the latest book in her oeuvre of misfortune: Resilience.

Tiptoeing down the hall, he came to a small upstairs living room in which a light burned.

But before I have time to evolve a satisfactory explanation, I hear Wingie tiptoeing back.

He listened some more; then he come tiptoeing down and stood right between us; we could a touched him, nearly.

Davy picked up the reins and Frosty began tiptoeing around and arching his back.

From that I concluded that he had either stopped or had taken to tiptoeing, too.

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On this page you'll find 176 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tiptoeing, such as: avoid, creep, dodge, equivocate, evade, and glide.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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