What are the antonyms for PUSSYFOOT?
- consent, allow, thoughtless, carry on, accept, plod, go along, heedless, attack, confront, careless, face, go, meet, uncareful, unguarded, go ahead, agree, persevere, stand up to, hasty, continue, take on, resolve, rash, incautious, encounter, speak on, admit, imprudent, unobservant.
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Synonyms for PUSSYFOOT
- give run around,
- welsh,
- stickles,
- hang,
- jives,
- Tiptoes,
- slicked,
- Shilly-shally,
- SAFER,
- alert,
- move secretly,
- shakes off,
- sit on fence,
- lied,
- double-talk,
- sneak,
- by-passes,
- shift,
- shrewd,
- disapprove,
- snake*,
- watch one's step,
- keep distance,
- discreet,
- put on an act,
- Shrouded,
- hedge,
- jived,
- tread warily,
- dither,
- thinking about,
- pulled back,
- fight,
- halting,
- inch,
- vacillate,
- pass the buck,
- approach unnoticed,
- Worming,
- fumble,
- begging the question,
- move to the side,
- dithering,
- Shied,
- hem and haw,
- foot,
- pause,
- slied,
- snake,
- balance,
- dispute,
- escape,
- shuffle off,
- Bumming,
- safe,
- put on act,
- leery,
- keeping on one's toes,
- prudent,
- combat,
- gumshoe,
- lie down on job,
- waffle,
- hem,
- scruples,
- conceal,
- challenge,
- fib,
- steal,
- with one's eyes peeled,
- equivocate,
- duck the issues,
- oppose,
- turned aside,
- sidestep,
- give the slip,
- cloak,
- hesitate,
- be unwilling,
- trick,
- doubt,
- playing safe,
- tiptoeing,
- snuck,
- sneak away,
- politic,
- slip,
- shake off,
- evade,
- stickle,
- edge,
- conceal oneself,
- gumshoeing,
- tiptoed,
- baffle,
- hesitant,
- insinuate,
- Stickling,
- Juke,
- shake,
- fake,
- oscillate,
- cautious,
- shrewdest,
- beg the question,
- put on false front,
- whitewashed,
- go around,
- beating around the bush,
- taking it slow,
- scrabbles,
- Scrabbling,
- shuck,
- fending off,
- demur,
- WORMS,
- worm one's way out of,
- swerve,
- play for time,
- signify,
- lead on a merry chase,
- lie in wait,
- delay,
- tergiverse,
- thinks about,
- beat around bush,
- lay in wait,
- mince words,
- fencing,
- euphemize,
- wary,
- judicious,
- glide,
- crawl on all fours,
- turning aside,
- four-flushing,
- shirk,
- simulate,
- pad,
- deprecate,
- Paused,
- forethoughtful,
- go barefoot,
- scrabble,
- watchful,
- complain,
- jiving,
- confuse,
- con,
- ditch,
- flipflop,
- steering clear of,
- hold off,
- dithered,
- chary,
- circumvent,
- Jukes,
- hang*,
- writhing,
- be irresolute,
- grovel,
- cagey,
- get out of,
- hang back,
- put on a false front,
- with eyes peeled,
- sit on the fence,
- Slicking,
- deceive,
- slying,
- taking it easy,
- cloud the issue,
- pass,
- strain,
- fend off,
- Floundered,
- shuck and jive,
- lurching,
- stall,
- put up a smoke screen,
- getting around,
- play possum,
- watching one's step,
- malinger,
- whitewash,
- hesitation,
- thinking twice,
- dilly-dally,
- taking exception,
- darked,
- remonstrate,
- on lookout,
- four flush,
- palter,
- dark,
- Parried,
- fly,
- provident,
- be reluctant,
- Hesitated,
- defer,
- tap dancing,
- Scrabbled,
- slide,
- pretend,
- quibble,
- grovelling,
- dissemble,
- shies,
- Inching,
- walk,
- get around,
- elude,
- linger,
- short-circuit,
- minced words,
- slip out,
- flip-flop,
- let on,
- tentative,
- temporize,
- shuffle,
- stonewall,
- dance around,
- wait,
- pull back,
- Bummed,
- pussyfoot,
- sit on,
- creep,
- tell white lie,
- parry,
- put up a front,
- ponder,
- put on a front,
- doublespeak,
- lay low,
- cop a plea,
- lurk,
- stumble,
- Shying,
- writhe,
- lying in wait,
- By-pass,
- walking on eggs,
- give the run around,
- beat around the bush,
- jive,
- fudge,
- put up smoke screen,
- going around,
- shy,
- wriggle,
- feign,
- considerate,
- slicks,
- avoid,
- all ears,
- covering up,
- weasel,
- heedful,
- weigh,
- falter,
- refuse,
- shrink,
- covers up,
- slink,
- skip out on,
- got out of,
- Short-circuiting,
- shrouding,
- object,
- hum,
- fibbing,
- shroud,
- dally,
- Wormed,
- stop,
- went around,
- go stealthily,
- decline,
- Slank,
- flip-flopping,
- bypass,
- shun,
- scramble,
- double,
- slinks,
- camouflage,
- prowl,
- Spiriting,
- lurch,
- dress up,
- snook,
- circumspect,
- run around,
- steer clear of,
- haw,
- worm,
- snooks,
- cop out,
- protest,
- dissimulate,
- Snaked,
- shillyshally,
- squirm,
- flounder,
- put off,
- pass quietly,
- slough off,
- pass up,
- cavil,
- turn aside,
- goldbrick,
- skirt,
- counterfeit,
- dillydally,
- stick,
- covered up,
- pulls back,
- waver,
- procrastinate,
- concealed oneself,
- fence,
- hide,
- wait around,
- alternate,
- wait and see,
- Snaking,
- on the lookout,
- resist,
- tiptoe,
- sham*,
- playing it cool,
- cover,
- passed up,
- debate,
- Stammered,
- shy away,
- calculating,
- eschew,
- dance around an issue,
- sit,
- falsify,
- Short circuit,
- lay wait,
- safest,
- put the move on,
- stutter,
- by-passing,
- lie,
- scruple,
- fluctuate,
- play it close to the vest,
- Inched,
- cover up,
- prevaricate,
- vigilant,
- pitter-patter,
- by-passed,
- mask,
- sloughs off,
- take exception,
- circumlocute,
- hover,
- laid low,
- duck,
- gingerly,
- affect,
- Stickled,
- slither,
- blow hot and cold,
- pulling back,
- be noncommittal,
- clear,
- hedging one's bets,
- flee,
- short circuits,
- watching out,
- dodge,
- make like,
- darking,
- four-flush,
- mouse,
- stammer,
- tergiversate,
- hold back,
- thought about,
- move,
- skulk,
- straddle,
- seesaw,
- think about,
- SLIES,
- move to side,
- think twice,
- give the runaround,
- balk.
Usage Examples for PUSSYFOOT
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It mattered little to William Johnson that error seemed to dog his footsteps; that he had " deduced" a famous pussyfoot admiral as a comedian addicted to drink; a lord, with a ten century lineage, as a man selling something or other; a Cabinet Minister as a company promoter in the worst sense of the term; nothing could damp his zeal. - "Malcolm Sage, Detective" by Herbert George Jenkins
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It was to have one church, to be used by the various denominations, and to be what is now called " Pussyfoot." - "Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life" by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers, Countess of Jersey
