In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
We havepussyfootedon that issue for far too long.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Surely we are not going to be so delicate orpussyfootedas all that.
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Hansard archive
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