What is another word for sidestep?
Synonyms for sidestep
ˈsaɪdˌstɛpside·step
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Princeton's WordNet
sidestepverb
a step to one side (as in boxing or dancing)
hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestepverb
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"
Synonyms:
put over, circumvent, set back, dip, turn off, confuse, cook, douse, overreach, beat, surround, dishearten, hold over, hem in, environ, defer, outfox, deflect, parry, dodge, remit, fake, duck, border, flurry, prorogue, block, outsmart, hedge, manipulate, put off, evade, falsify, table, misrepresent, postpone, hedge in, shelve, beleaguer, elude, disconcert, ring, wangle, escape, fudge, outwit, besiege, bilk, skirt
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List of paraphrases for "sidestep":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#464 | table | |
#1517 | ring | |
#1662 | block | |
#2851 | beat | |
#3139 | cook | |
#3282 | border | |
#4430 | escape | |
#4626 | dodge | |
#6134 | fake | |
#6185 | skirt | |
#7123 | duck | |
#8297 | surround | |
#9094 | dip | |
#10257 | bypass | |
#11515 | hedge | |
#11813 | environ | |
#15115 | manipulate | |
#17688 | fudge | |
#20060 | confuse | |
#21866 | parry | |
#23567 | defer | |
#24731 | remit | |
#28220 | postpone | |
#33891 | circumvent | |
#35107 | sidestep | |
#35156 | flurry | |
#35306 | evade | |
#44754 | deflect | |
#57345 | misrepresent | |
#64306 | elude | |
#64838 | falsify | |
#77925 | outwit | |
#81713 | shelve | |
#94911 | outsmart | |
#110802 | douse | |
#120061 | bilk | |
#141616 | besiege | |
#158476 | overreach | |
#308012 | wangle | |
#311709 | disconcert | |
#322072 | dishearten |
How to use sidestep in a sentence?
Much the same could be true right now about the escalation of tariffs (and) with time, investors have managed to sidestep them and returned to the familiarity of focusing on the data, which in the case of the U.S. economy, still looks good.
Don't lie and say that you don't have enough money on you to sidestep a meltdown.
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