skittish
Example Sentences
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It ended a skittish innings from Surrey's Smith, who could have been dismissed by Cameron Green on a number of occasions before Labuschagne was brought into the attack.
From BBC
More recently, the flagging real estate market has made people skittish.
From Los Angeles Times
They traded options, sent a new class of meme stocks to the moon and piled into the Magnificent Seven tech companies when the “smart money” got skittish.
Without staging a home, you might make some potential purchasers skittish because they can only see the place as it appears, questioning whether they’d want to live there.
From MarketWatch
For investors skittish about jumping in, there are other underpopulated corners of AI to explore.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
