0 present participle of pussyfoot --
1 to avoid making a decision or expressing an opinion because you are uncertain or frightened about doing so: --
That is the message contained in his speech, so let him say so, rather than pussyfooting around the issue.
Let us have no pussyfooting on that issue.
Is it not time that we stopped pussyfooting around in the whole business?
I am sick and tired of our pussyfooting attitude.
When will he stop pussyfooting about and get on with it?
I think it is time to stop pussyfooting around this issue and be tough with governments and tough with ourselves.
There is a sense of 'pussyfooting' around the problem.
I do not think that the public very much appreciates the sort of pussyfooting attitude which has surrounded the particular incident over the past week.
