skittish
Example Sentences
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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
The practice is largely designed to evade the scrutiny of competition regulators that have become skittish about tech giants snapping up promising companies that stand a chance of becoming rivals.
From Barron's
Buyers are skittish due to high mortgage rates and economic jitters, which means many sellers aren’t getting the list price they hoped for.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
