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Skittish
"Skittish" in a Sentence (15 examples)
Tom is skittish.
Tom's cat Felicity is skittish, but once you've befriended her, she won't leave you alone.
Tom was skittish.
I'm always skittish when it comes to car repair shops. I distrust many of them.
He's skittish.
He was skittish.
Many people are skittish about sexual matters.
Partridges seem to be very skittish.
Investors are skittish about inflation.
Are you always so skittish when meeting strangers?
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The dog likes people he knows, but he is skittish around strangers.
1557, Roger Edgeworth, Sermons Very Fruitfull, Godly, and Learned, London: Robert Caly, The fiftenth treatice or Sermon, All such be like a skittish starting horse, whiche coming ouer a bridge, wil start for a shadowe, or for a stone lying by him, and leapeth ouer on the other side into the water, & drowneth both horse and man.
How some men creep in skittish fortune’s hall, Whiles others play the idiots in her eyes!
[…] ’Tis pitiful To court a grin, when you should wooe a soul; To break a jest, when pity would inspire Pathetic exhortation; and t’ address The skittish fancy with facetious tales, When sent with God’s commission to the heart.
For everybody’s family doctor was remarkably clever, and was understood to have immeasurable skill in the management and training of the most skittish or vicious diseases.
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