skittishly

IPA: skˈɪtɪʃɫi

Examples of "skittishly" in Sentences

Backstage, Trump has a case of nerves, skittishly pacing and shaking his legs to the beat.
Rose looked at Kylie, who glanced around her skittishly, all the spark gone from her eyes.
I remember skittishly taking refuge in my own amused mother's lap the night before I moved far from home for my first real job.
She took long breaks for costume changes and behaved skittishly, giving her backing singers a disproportionate amount of vocals.
The blaze-faced chestnut was sensitive to the change in mood and began acting up, breaking stride and dancing skittishly around a turn.
Gillian Keith fizzed skittishly and effortlessly as Zerbinetta, an acidulous sop to Orla Boylan's munificent, creamy but variably toned Ariadne.
All of the regional actors now alter their calculus a bit, but none more obviously and skittishly than Karzai because he is really the one whose neck is in the noose.