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skirts around

skirts around is the third-person singular simple present indicative of skirt around.

Meaning of skirt around

Verb

skirt around (third-person singular simple present skirts around, present participle skirting around, simple past and past participle skirted around)

  1. To circumvent, to bypass, to go around in order to avoid.
    • Yet the reality in Japan was far more gruesome than the artful depiction in the film, which skirts around the human suffering caused by the bomb.2023 July 21, Rachel Hall, “Anti-nuclear groups welcome Oppenheimer film but say it fails to depict true horror”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Questions about skirts around

What is skirts around the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Skirts around is the third-person singular simple present indicative of skirt around.

Words near skirts around in the dictionary

  1. skirtless
  2. skirtlessness
  3. skirtlike
  4. skirts
  5. skirts and kidneys
  6. skirts around
  7. skirtsful
  8. skirty
  9. Skirvin
  10. Skirwhit
  11. skis

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