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skittish

How to use skittish in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for skittish.

Editorial note

We've found that customers are more skittish to share their bank account than their debit card number.

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Quick take

unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for skittish.

Example sentences

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We've found that customers are more skittish to share their bank account than their debit card number.

2

Having him manage a company I have any shares in at all would make me awfully skittish.

3

After Google killed numerous projects this year, I'm a little skittish about jumping into Dart.

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And like TFA said, you lose a lot of confidence from your employees and your investors if you are skittish and jumping all over the place.

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Some users are skittish of Chrome's autocomplete since it could potentially send anything you type into the address bar to Google's servers.

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The bulls however always seemed to be less skittish, the females, they never acted even remotely rational or consistent.

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But if you made a list of "things we could do to irritate skittish big-content types" putting out a Netflix client on a Linux based system would be at near top of the list.

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Although the terms page is quite readable and free of legalese, the idea of allowing someone to purchase such a high-value item on my behalf makes me skittish.

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The interface feels a bit on the skittish side it's one of those pages where you're afraid to move because it's going to change something, and where dragging the mouse around threatens to give you a seizure.

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I was at a work conference a few years ago and that morning I decided not to carry it, partly because I would be around all the company executives and didn't want one of the more skittish ones noticing it.

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We have the technology, we just are just skittish to process the fuel thru the bomb-suitable phase, and haven't correlated catastrophic failure with building the facility on a tsunami-and-earthquake-prone site.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use skittish in a sentence?

We've found that customers are more skittish to share their bank account than their debit card number.

What does skittish mean?

unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

What part of speech is skittish?

skittish is commonly used as adjective.