Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: sidestep)
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 skillfully" [syn: hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck]
[also: sidestepping, sidestepped]
See sidestep
Usage examples of "sidestepped".
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.
Armorer, and he sidestepped like a quarterback from olden times dodging a rushing defensive lineman, slipping nimbly between trees to the right of the track, out of the line of fire.