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- verb Present participle of
skite .
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Examples
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All your blather skiting about how Obama may lose in November is pointless.
Asked Whether Advisers Are Pushing Wright Story, Hillary Demurs 2009
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What wld you have done,my friend overherad them skiting and laughing about it on one of their “visits” to her flat.
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_Girls_ -- girls mounted side and astride, girls in racing-shells and skiting motor-boats, in limousines and runabouts, in dirigibles and 'planes; -- seaside, mountain and prairie girls; house-boat, hunting and skating girls; even a vivid parlor variety -- all conventional, colorful and unsigned.
Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Will Levington Comfort 1905
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I saw you in town this morning, skiting about, from pillar to post, and says I to myself,
A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett William Henry Venable 1878
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There is no need of wiping one's tail, said Gargantua, but when it is foul; foul it cannot be, unless one have been a-skiting; skite then we must before we wipe our tails.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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After skiting Mumbai for 116, the Daredevils scored 118 for three with seven balls to spare.
IOL: News 2009
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Was a report in media about the israeli PM speaking to IDF and media, and skiting about how he controlled the agenda of the US, by calling Bush out of a public talk-show to get him to make Rice abstain from the UN vote.
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Was a report in media about the israeli PM speaking to IDF and media, and skiting about how he controlled the agenda of the US, by calling Bush out of a public talk-show to get him to make Rice abstain from the UN vote.
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Was a report in media about the israeli PM speaking to IDF and media, and skiting about how he controlled the agenda of the US, by calling Bush out of a public talk-show to get him to make Rice abstain from the UN vote.
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Was a report in media about the israeli PM speaking to IDF and media, and skiting about how he controlled the agenda of the US, by calling Bush out of a public talk-show to get him to make Rice abstain from the UN vote.
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