Skittish

Gyrfalcon: replacementcool: meh cheetahs don't attack people, they're more skittish than regular cats.

If a series even openly discussed abortion, it risked the ire of highly organized media watchdogs on the religious right who would lead boycotts and threaten skittish advertisers.

Markets have been skittish in recent sessions with Republicans and Democrats unable to find common ground as the deadline for a deal to raise the country's borrowing limit approaches.

Skittish is right; poor JJ.

As a triumphant Starmer embarked on his new job last Friday, many of the skittish, spineless Tories who lost their nerve in 2022 woke up without theirs.

Biden’s team is assuring skittish Democrats that if Trump heads the GOP ticket, voters will show up for the president to thwart an extremist takeover.

Perhaps it is simply because, as adults, we have all lived through and been affected on some level by recent disasters so we’re all a bit skittish.

Privately, folks like O’Malley Dillon worked around the clock to calm skittish donors and activists.

Profiting from highly specialized data is the basis of Cohere, another of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups that pitches specifically-made models to businesses that are skittish about AI veering out of their control.

The only Democrat victory was in the Senate race, in which too many voters were skittish about football legend Herschel Walker, who was Trump’s handpicked candidate.

Travelers are skittish even if they aren't going bungee-jumping.

When you throw the lasso when you're galloping, you must land it perfectly on that piece of tree trunk with the cameras there, the sound guys, and all these people around the skittish horses.

While the other kids have labeled her as a "freak," Vada's only friend is a skittish, shy boy, Thomas J. Sennett, who is allergic to literally everything but doesn't find anything wrong with Vada's personality and interests.

As for Andre… well, he spent most of the episode trying to recruit thirdies to his cause, though they were pretty skittish.

Charlotte Trapman-O'Brien of the Turtle Back Zoo said cheetahs are naturally skittish.

For more skittish governors, it’s the end of the month.

Iran’s anti-ship missiles and air defense systems have made the Navy and Air Force skittish at the prospect of sending their multi-billion dollar platforms into harm’s way.

Knowing he’d been skittish before, I was scared to spook Kale by bringing up future plans so soon.

Now Mama— I was a lot more skittish of Mama than I was of Papa.

But there has also been a slowing of local production in the wake of the Fan Bingbing scandal, which made companies skittish to spend as they work to align with audits and a crackdown on fraud.