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Definition of sidestep

a step to one side (as in boxing or dancing)
avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"

Similar Words: hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck

Hyponyms: quibble

Derivational Morphology: dodge, dodging, scheme, dodger, fox, slyboots, avoidance, turning away, shunning, evasion, escape, circumvention, hedge, hedging, hedger, equivocator

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