The word "sidestep" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to indicate that someone is avoiding an issue or problem. Example sentence: The CEO sidestepped the question and moved on to the next topic.
Even as Mr Berlusconi rose to address the European parliament, seven Green MEPs protested, raising placards reading: "Everybody is equal under the law" - in reference to concerns that the Italian leader used his political influence to sidestep legal action over his business dealings.
In the last five years alone, the former communities secretary has been involved in the rewriting of planning policy, the guidelines of which are so scant that housebuilders can sidestep their responsibilities to build social housing or contribute from their profits to help councils or housing associations do so in their place.
During the walk home, as the tide came in, we had to sidestep the rubbish but we found our way by following a trail of half-eaten carrots left by the sheep.
For the first time, there is a slight sidestep.
The so-called allowances were described by EU financial services commissioner Michel Barnier yesterday as "a new category of invented revenue" designed to "sidestep" the cap.
So Walsh will perhaps, therefore, sidestep the fate that greeted Tulisa when she left The X Factor, saw Syco's protective forcefield disappear, and was the subject of an elaborately executed career annihilation by the News of the World.
Bailed-out Lloyds Banking Group and Barclays have handed their bosses almost £1m in shares to sidestep the new rules from Brussels which are intended to clampdown on bankers' pay.
England's rugby World Cup victory felt like a significant sidestep, because the media's lens is so often directed at athletes who compete in sports considered "appropriate" for women, such as gymnastics, athletics or tennis.
The head of another European security firm says many outfits sidestep bans on weapons in port by tossing them overboard.
Reportedly, the government also tapped the market in January selling bonds to Gulf investors to sidestep American economic sanctions over the massacres in Darfur.But Sudan's banking industry remains embryonic and few African countries combine the strong desire to promote Islamic banking with heavy demand from Muslim customers.
The slew of useful financial innovations also included some designed mainly to allow banks to sidestep regulation and take on more risk with their shareholders' (and taxpayers') money.
