skittish
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Skittish travelers started saying they plan to avoid airports this holiday season.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025
But the hands-down readers’ favorite was Mr. Booth’s mad-as-a-hatter bull terrier, who whirled in circles until dizzy, scratched himself a lot and posed glowering on a lawn beside a sign warning: “Beware! Skittish Dog.”
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2022
Skittish theater-goers who returned often had an appetite for only established, comfort shows.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2022
Skittish about injuries, she said he could once he reached the seventh grade, hoping he would forget about the endeavor.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2021
Skittish, skit′ish, adj. unsteady, light-headed, easily frightened: hasty, volatile, changeable: wanton.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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