pussyfooting

Synonyms and related words:

Washingtonese, all fours, bickering, boggling, bunkum, captious, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, choplogic, crawl, crawling, creep, creeping, dodging, equivocation, equivocatory, evasion, evasive, federalese, fencing, gobbledygook, gumshoeing, hairsplitting, hedging, logic-chopping, nightwalking, nit-picking, official jargon, officialese, padding, paltering, parrying, pettifoggery, petty, picayune, political doubletalk, prevarication, prowling, quibbling, scrabble, scramble, shifting, shuffling, sidestepping, sidling, slinking, snaking, sneaking, stealing, subterfuge, tergiversation, tippytoe, tiptoe, tiptoeing, trichoschistic, trichoschistism, trifling, trivial, worming