pussyfooting in a sentence
Examples
- Good, because I'm fed up with all you suckers pussyfooting around and doing all that dumb legal mojo on my legislative agenda.
- Overture, in which Slatkin seemed to be announcing that there will be no pussyfooting at the National Symphony while he's in charge.
- Meanwhile, on the death penalty / habeus corpus front, I am for anything that takes some of the pusillanimous pussyfooting out of the process.
- "I am so sick of pussyfooting around issues and minding your manners and worrying about upsetting this group or that, " she said.
- Agnew reduced press ideals to " whimpering isolationism . . . obstructionism in democracy . . . and pusillanimous pussyfooting on law and order ."
- Taking umbrage at several of the ballot measures approved last week, Lamont sarcastically suggested that voters stop pussyfooting around and do what they really want to do.
- Mendes took a while to accept the offer : " Basically, I spent two years pussyfooting around and working out whether I could do it ."
- Makes Nixon's " dirty tricks " seems like pussyfooting; is it worthy of mention ? talk ) 17 : 46, 8 January 2016 ( UTC)
- "What we are doing is pussyfooting with a bunch of very corrupt leaders because we don't want to risk them getting angry at us ."
- "That's not pussyfooting around, that's smart politics, and we deal strongly with the issues, but in a measured tone,"