Synonyms for Pussyfoot:

• adj.

  •cautious (adjective)
  • gingerly,
  • considerate,
  • safest,
  • judicious,
  • thinking twice,
  • shrewdest,
  • on lookout,
  • on the lookout,
  • discreet,
  • keeping on one's toes,
  • shrewd,
  • alert,
  • cagey,
  • chary,
  • with one's eyes peeled,
  • prudent,
  • heedful,
  • provident,
  • calculating,
  • circumspect,
  • watchful,
  • playing safe,
  • vigilant,
  • forethoughtful,
  • walking on eggs,
  • pussyfoot,
  • safe,
  • watching one's step,
  • hedging one's bets,
  • leery,
  • politic,
  • watching out,
  • taking it easy,
  • all ears,
  • playing it cool,
  • wary,
  • with eyes peeled,
  • taking it slow,
  • tentative,
  • SAFER.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • cautious.

• n.

  •
  • play for time,
  • wait,
  • wait around,
  • put off,
  • sit on,
  • hold off,
  • delay,
  • procrastinate,
  • temporize.
  •
  • slide,
  • snake,
  • move,
  • glide,
  • gumshoe.
  •
  • shuffle,
  • clear.
  •evade (noun)
  • avoid.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • hang back,
  • hesitant,
  • dither,
  • falter,
  • haw,
  • halting,
  • hum,
  • foot,
  • mouse,
  • sit,
  • hesitation,
  • dilly-dally,
  • hem,
  • Shilly-shally,
  • hang.

• v.

  •creep (verb)
  • writhe,
  • scramble,
  • wriggle,
  • slither,
  • squirm,
  • grovel,
  • edge,
  • inch,
  • insinuate.
  •demur (verb)
  • doubt,
  • waver,
  • stick,
  • challenge,
  • pause,
  • balk,
  • complain,
  • disapprove,
  • resist,
  • fight,
  • refuse,
  • deprecate,
  • vacillate,
  • object,
  • oppose,
  • strain,
  • wait and see,
  • dispute,
  • protest,
  • combat,
  • cavil,
  • shy.
  •dissemble (verb)
  • hide,
  • cover,
  • counterfeit,
  • let on,
  • shroud,
  • camouflage,
  • doublespeak,
  • feign,
  • dress up,
  • pass,
  • make like,
  • simulate,
  • signify,
  • affect,
  • stonewall,
  • falsify,
  • shuck and jive,
  • put on a front,
  • conceal,
  • fake,
  • double-talk,
  • dissimulate,
  • four-flush,
  • mask,
  • cloak,
  • put on an act,
  • cover up,
  • put up a smoke screen,
  • play possum,
  • put up a front,
  • put on a false front,
  • whitewash.
  •dodge (verb)
  • fence,
  • malinger,
  • deceive,
  • ditch,
  • fend off,
  • elude,
  • shake,
  • duck,
  • shift,
  • swerve,
  • parry,
  • dark,
  • fudge,
  • trick,
  • escape.
  •equivocate (verb)
  • quibble,
  • give run around,
  • blow hot and cold,
  • cop out,
  • lie,
  • cop a plea,
  • flip-flop,
  • beg the question,
  • run around,
  • pass the buck,
  • con,
  • shuck,
  • palter,
  • cloud the issue,
  • fib,
  • mince words,
  • eschew,
  • tell white lie,
  • jive.
  •evade (verb)
  • decline,
  • bypass,
  • confuse,
  • fly,
  • double,
  • circumvent,
  • shun,
  • baffle,
  • pretend,
  • flee.
  •hedge (verb)
  • give the run around,
  • stall.
  •hesitate (verb)
  • flounder,
  • straddle,
  • be irresolute,
  • dillydally,
  • hold back,
  • ponder,
  • fluctuate,
  • stammer,
  • think about,
  • linger,
  • hover,
  • seesaw,
  • stumble,
  • think twice,
  • stutter,
  • sit on fence,
  • stop,
  • dally,
  • oscillate,
  • balance,
  • defer,
  • pull back,
  • fumble,
  • shy away,
  • shrink,
  • weigh,
  • be reluctant,
  • alternate,
  • be unwilling,
  • debate.
  •Other relevant words: (verb)
  • walk,
  • dodge.
  •pad (verb)
  • pitterpatter,
  • pitterpatters,
  • pitter-pattering,
  • pitterpattered,
  • goes barefoot,
  • going barefoot,
  • pitter pattered,
  • pitter patters,
  • pitter-patters,
  • pitterpattering,
  • went barefoot,
  • pitter-pattered,
  • pitter pattering,
  • pitter patter.
  •pussyfoot (verb)
  • steal,
  • prevaricate,
  • slip,
  • play it close to the vest,
  • tiptoe,
  • skirt,
  • watch one's step,
  • hem and haw,
  • tread warily,
  • duck the issues.
  •shirk (verb)
  • lying down on job,
  • shuffling off,
  • lies down on job,
  • shuffled off,
  • lay down job,
  • lay down on job,
  • lied down job,
  • sloughing off,
  • lying down job,
  • shuffles off,
  • sloughed off,
  • lies down job,
  • lied down on job,
  • lie down job.
  •sidestep (verb)
  • dances around,
  • danced around,
  • goes around,
  • dancing around.
  •skulk (verb)
  • lied in wait,
  • lies wait,
  • lying wait,
  • conceals oneself,
  • lied wait,
  • lies in wait,
  • lie wait,
  • concealing oneself.
  •slink/slither (verb)
  • going stealthily,
  • went stealthily,
  • passes quietly,
  • passed quietly,
  • passing quietly,
  • goes stealthily.
  •sneak (verb)
  • snooking,
  • moved secretly,
  • snooked,
  • moves secretly,
  • moving secretly,
  • de ludes,
  • de lude,
  • de-lude,
  • de-ludes.
  •weasel (verb)
  • dance around issue,
  • worms way out of,
  • dancing around issue,
  • worms one way out of,
  • wormed ones way out of,
  • worming way out of,
  • worms one's way out of,
  • danced around issue,
  • worming one way out of,
  • worm one way out of,
  • dancing around an issue,
  • wormed one way out of,
  • wormed way out of,
  • danced around an issue,
  • wormed one's way out of,
  • worm ones way out of,
  • worming one's way out of,
  • dances around issue,
  • dances around an issue,
  • worming ones way out of,
  • tap danced,
  • worms ones way out of,
  • worm way out of.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • euphemize,
  • tergiversate,
  • waffle.
  •
  • prowl,
  • lurk.
  •disagree
  • demur.
  •dissemble
  • put on act,
  • covering up,
  • Shrouded,
  • whitewashed,
  • put up smoke screen,
  • four-flushing,
  • covered up,
  • four flush,
  • put on false front,
  • covers up,
  • shrouding.
  •equivocate
  • flipflop,
  • jived,
  • sit on the fence,
  • begging the question,
  • jives,
  • beat around the bush,
  • fibbing,
  • beating around the bush,
  • lied,
  • jiving,
  • flip-flopping,
  • minced words.
  •hedge
  • be noncommittal,
  • shillyshally.
  •hesitate
  • dithered,
  • thinking about,
  • Stammered,
  • Hesitated,
  • pulls back,
  • pulling back,
  • thought about,
  • dithering,
  • pulled back,
  • thinks about,
  • Floundered.
  •Other relevant words:
  • take exception,
  • slicked,
  • skip out on,
  • Slank,
  • crawl on all fours,
  • fending off,
  • goldbrick,
  • gumshoeing,
  • by-passes,
  • Snaking,
  • get out of,
  • Snaked,
  • steer clear of,
  • slip out,
  • slinks,
  • stickles,
  • Inched,
  • WORMS,
  • sidestep,
  • Jukes,
  • slink,
  • slied,
  • slough off,
  • SLIES,
  • Scrabbled,
  • Juke,
  • equivocate,
  • turned aside,
  • go stealthily,
  • Bummed,
  • Spiriting,
  • pass up,
  • hedge,
  • writhing,
  • pass quietly,
  • Scrabbling,
  • go around,
  • lie down on job,
  • Parried,
  • shies,
  • lead on a merry chase,
  • give the runaround,
  • stickle,
  • darked,
  • Wormed,
  • short circuits,
  • put the move on,
  • Worming,
  • Inching,
  • lurching,
  • snooks,
  • snuck,
  • by-passing,
  • by-passed,
  • get around,
  • dance around,
  • circumlocute,
  • slying,
  • skulk,
  • move to the side,
  • scruples,
  • beat around bush,
  • worm,
  • weasel,
  • Short-circuiting,
  • By-pass,
  • getting around,
  • evade,
  • keep distance,
  • tiptoeing,
  • sloughs off,
  • Bumming,
  • fencing,
  • grovelling,
  • passed up,
  • tiptoed,
  • lay low,
  • sneak,
  • pad,
  • Paused,
  • scruple,
  • Short circuit,
  • scrabble,
  • slicks,
  • Stickled,
  • steering clear of,
  • turning aside,
  • dissemble,
  • tergiverse,
  • sneak away,
  • scrabbles,
  • shake off,
  • give the slip,
  • lurch,
  • approach unnoticed,
  • go barefoot,
  • remonstrate,
  • worm one's way out of,
  • went around,
  • Tiptoes,
  • got out of,
  • hesitate,
  • taking exception,
  • laid low,
  • darking,
  • creep,
  • move to side,
  • move secretly,
  • Slicking,
  • shakes off,
  • turn aside,
  • going around,
  • snook,
  • Stickling,
  • dance around an issue,
  • welsh,
  • short-circuit,
  • Shying,
  • shuffle off,
  • Shied,
  • shirk,
  • tap dancing,
  • pitter-patter.
  •skulk
  • lying in wait,
  • lay wait,
  • concealed oneself,
  • conceal oneself,
  • lay in wait,
  • lie in wait.

Antonyms for Pussyfoot:

• adj.

  • cautious
    incautious, hasty, imprudent, unguarded, rash, heedless, uncareful, careless, unobservant, thoughtless.

• v.

  • demur
    agree, accept, go along, consent.
  • dissemble
    allow, admit.
  • dodge
    meet, stand up to, face, confront, encounter.
  • equivocate
    speak on.
  • evade
    take on.
  • hesitate
    continue, resolve, go ahead, attack, carry on, go, persevere.
  • pussyfoot
    plod.