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Deftly avoid
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sidestep
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A step to the side. 2 A motion, physical or metaphorical, to avoid or dodge something. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To step to the side. 2 (context transitive English) To avoid or dodge.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a step to one side (as in boxing or dancing) v. 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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also side-step , 1757, "a stepping to the side" (originally in military drill), from side (adj.) + step (n.). The verb is recorded from 1895; the figurative sense is attested from 1900.
Usage examples of sidestep.
Carefully sidestepping the glove, she continued on toward Beaverwood, flicking her flashlight left and right.
Ramelle sidestepped the martial show and Cora alternated between amusement and irritation.
The chestnut whuffed and sidestepped away from the road and into the stubbled grainfield, backing away from the hedgerow that seemed to start with the scrubby willows.
The Rider easily sidestepped him and Jobs barreled, unstoppable, off the side of the Blimp.
EFF Co-Founder Mitch Kapor once again sidestepped the bureaucratic consequences of his own success, by remaining in Boston and adapting the role of EFF guru and gray eminence.
Althea picked her way down to where the Vivacia was tied, sidestepping men with barrows, freight wagons drawn by sweating horses, chandlers making deliveries of supplies to outbound ships and merchants hastening to inspect their incoming shipments before taking delivery.
Pardu driven back two steps until, with a sweeping backslash, he leapt to the right and sidestepped round to give himself more space.
Cerise feinted right, then back, sidestepped a lunge, then grabbed a shaft and stabbed.
Adrenaline shooting through his veins, aware he could destroy the possibility of peace if he hurt the woman, he sidestepped and caught her arm.
When he sidestepped and tried to catch her arm, she checked her movement.
Shading his eyes with his free hand, Javan sidestepped left into the room behind Guiscard, keeping his back to the wall and trying to pierce the brightness as Charlan surged in behind him.
She pressed her back against the wall and sidestepped until she was right beside it.
Pendergast, holding the burning paper aloft, adroitly sidestepped his grab.
Ringo dashed at him again, but this time the man sidestepped, and the dog went off the roof.
Any safeguard that can be set up by one programmer can be breached or sidestepped by another.