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Trepidatious

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Adjective
  1. 1
    In a state of trepidation; fearful.

    "Hilda looked up from the papers she had been busy with as he entered -- in fact, made a guilty and trepdatious attempt at sweeping them out of sight, which suggested a weakness entirely foreign to her."

Etymology

From, or as if, trepidate + -ious; see trepidation for more.

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