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What does pussyfoot mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word pussyfoot? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (intransitive) To move silently, stealthily, or furtively.
  2. (intransitive) To act timidly or cautiously.
  3. (intransitive) To use euphemistic language or circumlocution.
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It's this obstinate refusal to pussyfoot around and pull punches that endears her to those sick of spin and glib sloganeering.
Are Mr. Volstead or Mr. pussyfoot Johnson satisfied with the present condition of things in their country?
Why should everyone pussyfoot around with expensive breakfasts and cringing favor-trading?
Your king of Kusiak has to learn some time that everybody isn't going to sidestep him and pussyfoot when he's around.
You don't pussyfoot around and make excuses for a murderous dictator who ignores U.N. mandates for 12 years.
But I'm not sitting in the dressing room telling them not to tackle, to pussyfoot around, telling them to mis-place passes.

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