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What is another word for letting something slide?

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Verb
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Present participle for to negligently allow something to deteriorate
shirking
neglecting
skimping on
paying no attention to
paying little attention to
letting something go downhill
letting something go to seed
dodging
evading
avoiding
ducking
escaping
getting out of
copping out of
weaseling out of
leaving something undone
sliding out of
bypassing
weaselling out of
forgetting
losing sight of
eschewing
playing truant from
running away from
missing
bludging
wriggling out of
getting around
shrinking from
quitting
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Verb
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Present participle for to delay taking action
procrastinating
dallying
delaying
stalling
dawdling
temporisingUK
temporizingUS
adjourning
deferring
dithering
havering
hesitating
postponing
prolonging
protracting
retarding
vacillating
wavering
cooling
goldbricking
lagging
poking
swithering
tarrying
waiting
dragging
lingering
loitering
pausing
staying
dilly-dallying
putting off
deferring action
dragging your feet
holding off
shilly-shallying
taking a raincheck
humming and hawing
playing for time
postponing action
hanging fire
putting off doing something
suspending action
using delaying tactics
playing a waiting game
kicking the can down the road
dragging your heels
Verb
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Present participle for to neglect to do
omitting
failing
forgetting
neglecting
overlooking
skipping
ignoring
passing over
leaving something undone
losing sight of
disregarding
overpassing
missing
shirking
pretermitting
paying no heed to
paying no attention to
paying no mind
failing to look after
paying little attention to
slighting
failing to remember
losing track of
discounting
bypassing
abandoning
dismissing
forsaking
deferring
avoiding
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Verb
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Present participle for to fail to include
omitting
dropping
excluding
excepting
missing
cutting
bypassing
disregarding
eliding
precluding
barring
dismissing
overleaping
overpassing
pretermitting
skipping
prohibiting
rejecting
repudiating
slighting
withholding
leaving out
counting out
cutting out
dispensing with
factoring out
leaving off
passing by
taking out
missing out
passing over
shutting out
skipping over
casting aside
failing to include
failing to mention
not bothering
giving something a miss
Verb
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Present participle for to excuse or disregard as unimportant or insignificant
overlooking
disregarding
ignoring
discounting
overpassing
whitewashing
condoning
excusing
forgiving
pardoning
remitting
sparing
burying
sinking
stomaching
taking
passing over
brushing aside
glossing over
shrugging off
brushing off
winking at
blinking at
paying no attention to
taking no notice of
papering over
letting go
letting pass
glozing over
turning a blind eye to
conniving at
taking no account of
turning a deaf ear to
deliberately ignoring
tuning out
shutting eyes to
looking the other way
living with
making allowances for
paying no mind
letting something ride
letting someone off with
bearing with
going along with
letting bygones be bygones
looking past
playing past
putting up with
rolling with punches
standing for
wiping slate clean
grinning and bear it
swimming with the tide
turning blind eye to
making light of
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