skittish

IPA: skˈɪtɪʃ

Examples of "skittish" in Sentences

Bloomberg News Sales are rising, but companies remain skittish over demand.
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.