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skittish
adjective as in very nervous
Example Sentences
But Jones and Redgrave have such a consistency in how they play these skittish lovers that it drives home the point that their cruel, untamed condition doesn’t adhere to the niceties of narrative convention.
Still, as damage estimates from the Eaton fire climb and Edison’s market cap tumbles, skittish investors have been left wondering how big an effect the blaze will have on the utility’s bottom line.
Trump was previously skittish about cryptocurrency, but at a Bitcoin conference in Nashville last year he said America would be "the crypto capital of the planet" once he returned to Washington.
The cats would have been too skittish at the shelter, amid hundreds of people, and were well cared for at Pasadena Humane.
Their first four wickets fell for 43 runs, including Zak Crawley for a skittish 17, and their last four for 21.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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