skittish
Example Sentences
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Tech firms’ ambitious plans for blowout spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure had already been making some investors skittish over the past couple of months.
Airlines lost booking momentum when some customers turned skittish and made other plans ahead of Thanksgiving holiday as the shutdown ground on.
From MarketWatch
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
