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skirting
adjective as in bordering
Strongest matches
Weak matches
adjective as in coastal
adjective as in lateral
adjective as in side
noun as in hem
Example Sentences
Labor Department’s wage and hour division, said operators like Mr. Perez go “in and out of business under multiple names,” skirting responsibility by creating a “game of Whac-a-Mole.”
Illegal dispensaries undercut their legitimate counterparts in communities across California by skirting testing and licensing requirements, not paying taxes, and otherwise avoiding regulation, which allows them to sell products at bargain prices.
Mr Basu said he had “spent many years skirting round various fringes of the law” and had been able to “inflame and toxify debates and create the kind of mayhem we’re seeing”.
Critics said the move amounts to another example of Biden skirting Congress and abusing parole authority.
But skirting cliché, the entertaining third season of “Hacks,” which just concluded, dramatizes a more novel and pointed onstage moment: the crisis of success.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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