Where they have skirted round the edges of the subject, they have displayed the extent of their ignorance.
The question of the swamping by imports from the foreigner has so far only been skirted.
He skirted over these basic problems which would affect our working class.
Let me put it this way: he skirted all round the fallacy without lifting up the skirts.
It is obvious that so far—and this matter has been skirted round—emergency powers have been used.
However, he skirted quickly over the issue of ratification.
A regulation which would apply to the skirted hovercraft may well be inapplicable to the sidewall hovercraft.
Such motifs skirted dangerously toward womanly qualities.