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pussyfooted

pussyfooted adjective: overly circumspect or euphemistic. Also the simple past and past participle of pussyfoot.

Adjective

pussyfooted (comparative more pussyfooted, superlative most pussyfooted)

  1. Overly circumspect or euphemistic.
    • At that point, I couldn't help wondering how many ignorant, homophobic and outing-phobic viewers recoiled in horror. But relief was on the way in the form of the pussyfooted Alexis Smith. While referring to [Cole] Porter's 1946 film (alleged) biography, Night and Day, she mentions there were...1991 December 1, Rudy Grillo, “Who's The Top?”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 20, page 8

Also used as

pussyfooted is also the simple past and past participle of pussyfoot.

Forms of pussyfooted

comparativemore pussyfooted
superlativemost pussyfooted

Questions about pussyfooted

What does pussyfooted mean?
Pussyfooted means overly circumspect or euphemistic.
What part of speech is pussyfooted?
Pussyfooted is an adjective.

Words near pussyfooted in the dictionary

  1. pussydom
  2. pussyfest
  3. pussyfests
  4. pussyfication
  5. pussyfoot
  6. pussyfooted
  7. pussyfooter
  8. pussyfooters
  9. pussyfooting
  10. pussyfootings
  11. pussyfootism

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