apprehensiveness
Example Sentences
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But covid apprehensiveness is not what it once was, and many may feel that a couple of shots is enough.
From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2022
That’s valid, that apprehensiveness is valid, but also realize that it’s necessary to criticize something in order for it to grow and improve.
From Slate • Apr. 22, 2020
Justice Souter said the ordinance was permissible because begging can create “serious apprehensiveness, real or apparent coercion, physical offense or even danger.”
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2014
They undermined themselves with an apprehensiveness that made them strike out in anxiety.
From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2010
He surveyed his brown fists with a certain apprehensiveness, as though they were dangerous parties over whom he had no control.
From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Day, Holman
