skittish in English

adjective
1
(of an animal, especially of a horse) excitable or easily scared.
a skittish chestnut mare

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1. Skittish, Toombs.

2. The Chinese are getting skittish.

3. The declining dollar gave heart to skittish investors.

4. Investors are skittish about the impact of an economic downturn.

5. Some skittish Wall Street investors are staying away from the market.

6. Netherlands Dwarfs can be skittish, wild, and/or of a disagreeable nature.

7. They feared its mystery benefactor - a private company - might get skittish.

8. They deliberately gave me a skittish and mordacious mount.

9. She is a skittish girl who doesn 't behave herself.

10. She gets very skittish when her boy - friend is around.

11. As it is, the thundering herd is likely to prove a skittish lot.

12. Any pack animals the adventurers have may get restless and skittish.

13. With consumers so skittish, service industries are not faring well either.

14. Skittish Americans are not the only ones worried about Chinese exports.

15. My horse is rather skittish, so I have to keep him away from traffic.

16. She is as skittish as a kitten playing with a piece of string.

17. This product's life cycle will only last as long as everybody's skittish about SARS.

18. My fellow legislators were skittish about appearing in any way be soft on crime.

19. Skittish investors are keen buyers of Germany government paper, too, driving bond yields down.

20. Marilyn was a complete child, playful and skittish one moment, sulky and withdrawn the next.

21. It is sad that 20 - and 30 - some things , as reported in the media, are skittish about commitment.

22. And if Apple falls apart, software developers could get even more skittish about sinking money into writing programs for Macs.

23. The already skittish horse Balked at the sudden change in direction, but Katherine fought with it impatiently.

24. Cranston's mount became skittish and even Philomel showed a lively interest in the group round the scaffold.

25. 23 Cranston's mount became skittish and even Philomel showed a lively interest in the group round the scaffold.

26. Institutional investors such as mutual funds are more skittish and can bail out after a few quarters of soft earnings.

27. Julie Worden and Charlton Boyd meet in a skittish duet, marked by sudden departures, near misses and unexpected evasive leaps.

28. During the long housing slump, several high-profile crime stories gave skittish buyers one more reason to avoid the Inner Mission.

29. The job of the Treasury Secretary is chiefly that of a horse whisperer, to tame skittish financial markets by talking sweetly, if sometimes obliquely, into their ears.

30. With its looks, impressions and its colours, and its exchanges between high-born individuals ("don’t say ‘I want to fuck’, say ‘I feel skittish’"), Curiosa skims over the surface of the potential crudeness of its subject, touching gently upon the topic rather than slipping into salaciousness (Zohra’s character is …