sidestepping Definition

avoiding, circumventing, bypassing, evading, shirking, ousting, deposing, fudging, skirting, ignoring, deflecting, dodging, ducking, eschewing, defusing, blunting, disregarding, parrying, creating, scuttling, banishing, disdaining, squashing, negating, thwarting, invoking, exacerbating, finessing, muddying, shying, undermining, rejecting, nullifying, countering, perpetuating, answering, obfuscating, defying, dismissing, tiptoed, quashing, sparking, rebuffing, sidelining, shunning, provoking, allaying, glossing, balancing, confronting, addressing, upending, dealing, minimizing, quelling, acquiescing, couching, legitimizing, tackling, averting, prolonging, overcoming, precluding, embroiling, rewriting, overturning, stymied, alleviating, dogging, heightening, omitting, easing, hamstringing, elevating, squelched, neutralizing, reining, shielding, broaching, resorting, scotched, conflating, acknowledging, grappling, removing, evoking, shrugging, subjecting, capping, conjuring, surmounting, limiting, forgoing, entangling, curbing, lessening, resolving, corralling, counteracting, eliding,