- pussyfooted
- 'puss·y·foot || 'pʊsɪfʊts v. move stealthily, move cautiously, sneak quietly
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
pussyfooted
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pussyfooted — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ adjective also pussyfoot ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ Etymology: pussyfooted from pussyfoot, adjective + ed; pussyfoot from pussy (I) + foot : characterized by pussyfooting … Useful english dictionary
pussyfoot — UK [ˈpʊsɪˌfʊt] / US verb [intransitive] Word forms pussyfoot : present tense I/you/we/they pussyfoot he/she/it pussyfoots present participle pussyfooting past tense pussyfooted past participle pussyfooted informal to avoid saying or doing… … English dictionary
furtive — Synonyms and related words: artful, back door, backstairs, calculating, chiseling, clandestine, collusive, conspiratorial, covert, covinous, crafty, cunning, deceitful, doggo, FALSE, falsehearted, feline, finagling, foxy, fraudulent, guileful,… … Moby Thesaurus
lurking — Synonyms and related words: abeyant, about to be, already in sight, approaching, at hand, between the lines, brewing, close, close at hand, coming, covert, cryptic, delitescent, doggo, dormant, esoteric, forthcoming, furtive, future, gathering,… … Moby Thesaurus
skulking — Synonyms and related words: back door, backstairs, clandestine, covert, cowering, cringing, doggo, feline, furtive, hidden out, hidlings, hole and corner, hugger mugger, in ambush, in hiding, in the wings, lurking, on tiptoe, privy, prowling,… … Moby Thesaurus
sneaking — Synonyms and related words: all fours, back door, backstairs, clandestine, covert, cowering, crawl, crawling, creep, creeping, cringing, deep rooted, deep seated, devious, doggo, duplicitous, feline, furtive, guileful, gumshoeing, gut, hidden,… … Moby Thesaurus
stealing — Synonyms and related words: abstraction, all fours, annexation, appropriation, blackmail, boodle, boosting, booty, burglary, conversion, conveyance, crawl, crawling, creep, creeping, doggo, embezzlement, filching, fraud, furtive, graft,… … Moby Thesaurus
stealthy — Synonyms and related words: Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful, astute, back door, backstairs, cagey, canny, catlike, catty, clandestine, clever, closet, covert, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep laid, designing,… … Moby Thesaurus
surreptitious — Synonyms and related words: artful, back door, backstairs, calculating, chiseling, clandestine, collusive, concealed, covert, covinous, crafty, cunning, deceitful, doggo, FALSE, falsehearted, feline, finagling, fraudulent, furtive, guileful,… … Moby Thesaurus
undercover — Synonyms and related words: above water, abstruse, armored, at anchor, back door, backstairs, beclouded, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, behind the veil, blind, buried, cased, ceiled, clandestine, cloaked, close, clouded, coated, concealed … Moby Thesaurus
