Example Sentences
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I pussyfooted around the garage, checked whether there were hostages in the canteen.
From US News ● Jul. 25, 2016
Yet he has not pussyfooted against latter-day revolutionaries.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Sergeant Roy Hooe pussyfooted along the slim runway leading to the spewing machine, did some windy tinkering.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I have sidled, tiptoed, pussyfooted, perhaps even slunk.
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He didn't go back at all till the middle of the night, when he pussyfooted in and got his things out, and disappeared like he had stumbled down a well.
From Ma Pettengill by Wilson, Harry Leon