sidesteps in English

noun

1

a step taken sideways, typically to avoid someone or something.

With a parry and a sidestep , he deftly avoided the deadly club.

verb

1

avoid (someone or something) by stepping sideways.

as she walked she sidestepped the many cracks in the pavement

verb

• avoid, evade, dodge, circumvent, skirt around, bypass, duck, pussyfoot around
• skirt, hedge, duck, evade, elude, dodge, put off, fudge, parry, circumvent

Use "sidesteps" in a sentence

1. Corybantic sidesteps severalhardproblems

2. It merely sidesteps the issue by relocating the origin to another solar system or galaxy.

3. Synonyms for Circumvents include dodges, avoids, evades, sidesteps, ducks, bypasses, escapes, skirts, beats and shortcuts

4. Antonyms for Brazens include dodges, ducks, funks, shirks, sidesteps, avoids, evades, baulks at, recoils from and escapes from

5. As the plot thickens, George unearths a catalogue of guns, uncovers a diplomat who is sailing incognito, and Chastely flirts with a Washington socialite while Genevieve befriends Gilpatrick’s wife, sidesteps her swains, and frets over George’s mild flirtation