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View definitions for skirting

skirting

adjective as in bordering

adjective as in coastal

adjective as in lateral

Strong match

noun as in hem

noun as in skirt

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The image-conscious two-way player doesn’t like to say to reporters directly that he won’t speak, as doing so after, say, a hitless game could make him look as if he is skirting accountability.

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"It started really with DIY items, wallpaper strippers, ladders, drills, your usual kind of thing. As I got further into my DIY, I started to borrow the mitre saw to do the skirting boards."

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From down in the fairway, it resembles a giant draught excluder, skirting the back of the tee and adjacent 18th green.

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Some fake tanners are even using masking tape - the type I use on my skirting boards - to create that crisp line across their skin.

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For 35 years, Cruise’s super spy Ethan Hunt and his rotating, crackerjack team of rogue agents have been saving the world from annihilation time and time again, skirting death by a hair each time.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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