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UK
/sˈaɪdstɛp/
]
[ US /ˈsaɪdˌstɛp/ ]
[ US /ˈsaɪdˌstɛp/ ]
VERB
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avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
They tend to evade their responsibilities
he evaded the questions skillfully
He dodged the issue
she skirted the problem
NOUN
- a step to one side (as in boxing or dancing)
How To Use sidestep In A Sentence
- Apparently, today's purveyors of pagan religions have sidestepped this question by changing the labels.
- It is a delicate task to choreograph the proceedings in such a way as to sidestep them.
- Giving money to charity in your will is another handy way to sidestep the taxman. Times, Sunday Times
- He made a grab for her but she sidestepped him.
- Some architects and scholars of architecture have sidestepped this question and chosen instead to experiment with vernacularism.
- Pressure was applied with cool precision: women had discovered that to sidestep male dominance was to avoid destructive rage.
- I tried to bolt, sidestepping Maxim's frail attempts to stop me and opening the lock as I had the last time.
- So he kind of sidestepped it and said, ` Well, Mr. Roosevelt is -- is not planning on doing any campaigning further here, but we want to thank you, and he wants to say that he's feeling as hearty as a bull moose. ' Frank and Jesse James: The Story Behind the Legend
- As skiers did prior to machine grooming, we sidestepped and herringboned uphill to pack down the powder and skied down several times.
- The report sidesteps the environmental issues.