Usually means: Avoided directly addressing or confronting.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word sidestepped:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. sidestepped: Merriam-Webster
  2. sidestepped: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sidestepped: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sidestepped: Vocabulary.com
  5. sidestepped: Wordnik
  6. sidestepped: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. sidestepped: Wiktionary
  8. sidestepped: Dictionary.com
  9. sidestepped: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. sidestepped: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sidestepped: Legal dictionary

(Note: See sidestep as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sidestep)

noun:  A step to the side.
noun:  A physical motion or metaphorical act to avoid or dodge something.
verb:  (intransitive) To step to the side.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To avoid or dodge.
▸ Also see sidestep

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