skittish
IPA: skˈɪtɪʃ
adjective
- Easily scared or startled; timid.
- Wanton; changeable; fickle.
- Difficult to manage; tricky.
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Examples of "skittish" in Sentences
- Their personality is shy and skittish.
- Tom is also skittish and easily frightened.
- I'm a little too skittish of messing something up.
- Because she's skittish, she won't talk about the symbol.
- Furthermore, Skittish was available through the Internet.
- He is very skittish and often backs away from confrontations.
- Despite this, Mihashi retains his skittish and shy personality.
- But when it comes to unilateral intervention, Hoffmann is skittish.
- Hint escapes, but the skittish horse he chose bucked him to the ground.
- Bloomberg News Sales are rising, but companies remain skittish over demand.
- Shy or skittish rabbits use these to achieve a sense of the safety of a burrow.
- But if some investors are skittish, that isn't reflected in the Treasury bond data.
- Not knowing if they're going to play is only going to make them more skittish, which is really the last thing we need.
- Still, shoppers remain skittish about the economic recovery, leaving the retail industry uncertain about the upcoming holiday season.
- Spirited horses, when not enough exercised, are often called skittish, when it is only play; and some grooms will punish them, but our John did not; he knew it was only high spirits.
- A few days before the firings in late 2006, then Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty e-mailed he was a little "skittish" about Bogden's firing but did not intervene to take his name off the list.
- The mare was not "skittish" -- by no means -- according to Tom's idea, but it would have been more than an ordinary mare to have stood the sudden descent of half-a-ton of snow without _some_ symptoms of consciousness.
- The mare was not "skittish" -- by no means -- according to Tom's idea, but it would have been more than an ordinary mare to have stood the sudden descent of half a ton of snow without _some_ symptoms of consciousness.
- Ellie Mae, described as a skittish, one-and-a-half year old, medium-sized, beagle-shepherd mix, ran away from a volunteer dog walker on Independence Pass on March 3, according to Anne Gurchick, assistant director of the Aspen / Pitkin Animal Shelter.
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