Thesaurus / pussyfoot

pussyfoot

How to use pussyfoot in a sentence

Mr. Pussyfoot Johnson has told a Glasgow audience that he is no kill-joy, but smokes cigars.

He had been called many things—loan-shark, skinflint, tightwad, pussyfoot—but he had never before been called a flirt.

MAIN STREETSINCLAIR LEWIS

It appears that the man called the lamp-post "Pussyfoot," and the latter promptly knocked him down.

Converting a pussyfoot into liquid measure with caustic soda water.

But that is another story, and might bring Mr. Pussyfoot Johnson on the scene before his time.

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 LIFEMARGARET ELIZABETH LEIGH CHILD-VILLIERS, COUNTESS OF JERSEY

Now this hotel was strictly Pussyfoot, and my husband, having been warned, had brought his own wine for our Party.

FIFTY-ONE YEARS OF VICTORIAN LIFEMARGARET ELIZABETH LEIGH CHILD-VILLIERS, COUNTESS OF JERSEY

Your king of Kusiak has to learn some time that everybody isn't going to sidestep him and pussyfoot when he's around.

THE YUKON TRAILWILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE

Are Mr. Volstead or Mr. Pussyfoot Johnson satisfied with the present condition of things in their country?

Call him a Pussyfoot as well; you cannot shake him from his pinnacle.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985