apprehensive

“I’d understand if he avoided coming back - I know some spectators who didn’t want to return, and some who were very apprehensive,” she added.

Some people I met with were pretty apprehensive about me directing and writing this, but that’s what I wanted to do.

The planned deployment of Egyptian troops along its eastern border would also make Ethiopia particularly apprehensive, he added.

For her brother Adam, living in Cardiff meant an apprehensive phone call every day.

He, too, has felt apprehensive at times about speaking publicly on an issue that stirs up age-old racial tensions.