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"skittishly" Definitions
  1. a horse that behaves skittishly is easily excited or frightened and therefore difficult to control
  2. in a way that is not very serious and with ideas and feelings that keep changing
  3. (especially North American English, business) in a way that keeps changing or is likely to change suddenly
"skittishly" Synonyms
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20 Sentences With "skittishly"

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The stock market has also reacted skittishly to Trump's trade policies.
Mr. Dick of the Mister Softee truck took Pop's money skittishly.
Feeding together in tight flocks for safety, plovers, dowitchers and sandpipers feed skittishly.
Plucked phrases on the kantele and the strings seem at once delicately spiritual and skittishly angular.
Over all, the music is crucial, by turns pensive and fidgety, solemnly harmonic and skittishly diffuse.
Syllables are eerily prolonged; images (like "lewd fat bells") are evoked through vocal lines that dart skittishly.
Oil prices rattled skittishly, everyone suddenly monitored ships, and headlines speculated that Israel might attack Iran's nuclear sites.
A disconcertingly sultry naïf, she made her mark on a culture skittishly poised between prurience and an uneasy Puritanism.
They're both four-chord piano ballads, though Ocean's is warped and skittishly stream-of-consciousness while Musgraves's is startlingly beautiful and concise.
But that'd all be for naught if the player-controlled boy controlled as skittishly as, say, Wander from Shadow of the Colossus.
"Nor will I soon forget the arresting piteousness of those bony white fingers spidering skittishly along the rim of the garbage can as Nagg pleads for a sugarplum" — which never arrives.
The allusion to Thelonious Monk in line 9 is not misplaced; Young keeps things skittishly off-kilter in his idiosyncratic way of playing his phrases across the bar of the line break.
But it's not too early to say that this law is a key step toward empowering a variety of college athletes in a way the sporting world has long skittishly, shamefully avoided.
The junta led by Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who toppled Yingluck's government in a 2014 coup, has reacted skittishly as Thaksin has become more vocal in his opposition to the military government this year.
It has enraged and inspired its residents, while forever altering their behavior — there are those who cleave to its shelter during bad weather, or skittishly avoid it — as they continue to rail against its persistence and ubiquity, perhaps unaware of the history behind much of it.
Emma longs for more — excitement, passion, status, and love. She shows restraint at first, when smitten law clerk Leon Dupuis skittishly professes his affections for her. However, she is intrigued by the dashing Marquis, who makes more overt advances. Their affair emboldens her as she believes it gives her glimpse of the good life.
Andrew Stover of Film Threat praised the cinematography of the film, writing, "It is a breathtaking, yet deadly location with vistas, ancient sites, and bodies of water." Joe Leydon of Variety praised Bafort for her performance in the film, stating that her "lithe and expressive physicality serve her well while playing a woman skittishly awakening to a world she doesn't remember". The pacing was criticised by Elizabeth Weitzman of TheWrap, who wrote: "There's nothing wrong with a movie that follows its own, insistently deliberate pace. If there is no satisfying end goal, however, an iconoclastic approach quickly shifts from artistic depth to empty posing".
Outraged by Frost's actions, Wolfe refuses to drop the matter without being paid his full fee, despite being pressured by both Helen's mother Calida and Frost's blustering father Dudley. Intrigued by Wolfe investigating a crime scene personally, Inspector Cramer tries to find out what Wolfe has learned. Although Wolfe offers him little, he does suggest that Cramer and Archie gather the people of interest in the case and one-by-one offer them a chocolate from a box similar to that which contained the poisoned item that killed Molly Lauck. Making note of who selects what, Archie notes that Boyden McNair’s response is different from the others in that he initially goes to select a Jordan almond, as the victim did, but then reacts skittishly and chooses something else.
Billington commented that Quilley "conveys Pizzaro's journey from tough, hard brutal commander to enraptured idolater and, finally, grieving lover: he is at once indisputably masculine and a figure skittishly enlivened by his rival's physical presence."Billington, Michael. "An Indian love story", The Guardian, 6 September 1989, p. 46 During the 1980s Quilley continued to appear in numerous television broadcasts, playing parts like Parris in The Crucible, W. E. Gladstone in Number 10, Captain Waterhouse in Tales Of The Unexpected, Peter in a biblical mini-series A.D. (1985) and Dr. Leon Sterndale in the 1988 Sherlock Holmes adaptation of The Devil's Foot. His cinema roles in the 1980s were Kenneth Marshall in Evil under the Sun (1982), Captain Dennis in the film of Privates on Parade (1982), Rejeb in Memed My Hawk (1984), the prophet Samuel in King David (1985), and the Prime Minister in Foreign Body (1986).
1100 Jefferson Street is not just any address; it’s everything for four friends bonded by both their circumstances and their struggle to make something, anything out of their seemingly predetermined fate. The crew played by Arlen Escarpeta, Cory Hardrict, Maurice McRae and Lorenzo Eduardo share one simple job description -- “Dough Boys.” Corey, the all-around good guy with great potential (Escarpeta); Smooth, the ladies man, big dreamer and quintessential leader (Hardrict); Black, the eager-to-please skinny weed head (McRae) and Long Cuz, the skittishly annoying square trying to keep up with everyone else (Eduardo) form the group who make up their rules and moves as they go along. Drama can always be found among 1100 Jefferson Street’s day-to-day dealings down to the resident crack head that serves as both lookout and snitch and the good- hearted Beauty (Reagan Gomez-Preston) running a full-service hair salon out of her one-bedroom apartment.

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