skittish

Example Sentences

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Everyone feels a little stressed, a little skittish, a little tender to the touch.

From Salon

Tech firms’ ambitious plans for blowout spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure had already been making some investors skittish over the past couple of months.

From The Wall Street Journal

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