skirting
skur ting
- v avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- v pass around or about; move along the border
- v form the edge of
- v extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
- s being all around the edges; enclosing
the room's skirting board needs painting
- The Alaska governor could also face charges for conducting official state business using her personal, unarchived e-mail account (a crime); some critics accuse her of skirting .
- Across these hot sands the first Turkic camel trains probed into the Middle Kingdom 2,000 years ago, laden with ivory and gold, skirting the forbidding Taklimakan desertthe name .
- Pro se defendants in highly politicized trials often succeed in slowing down the trial and skirting legal procedures because their very lack of expertise usually prompts judges to .