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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