skittishly

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Recent Examples of skittishly While skittishly edited, the film nevertheless builds up Faithfull’s biography in basic chronological order. Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skittishly
Adverb
  • Leakey playfully dubbed them The Trimates.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • With Austin Reaves shooing Hachimura off-stage and playfully wrestling the mic away.
    Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Sitting at 1-2-1 on the season, the Dallas Cowboys head into their Week 5 game against the New York Jets desperately needing a victory to keep pace in the NFC East.
    Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The result has been a less vibrant, less productive network of private enterprises unable to provide the economic growth that Cuba so desperately needs.
    Joseph J. Gonzalez, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Hydroplaning happens when a vehicle starts sliding uncontrollably on wet roads.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Hydroplaning is when a vehicle starts uncontrollably sliding on wet roads.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 4 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Indonesian rescue teams are frantically searching for scores of young students buried for two days under rubble in Sidoarjo, East Java, after their Islamic boarding school collapsed on them during afternoon prayers.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, her parents frantically hide the rift from their audience.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 29 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The song's interplay between choir and orchestra is buoyantly euphoric, opening a door to bolder, more intentionally progressive and soulful sounds in the country's mainstream.
    Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 May 2025
Adverb
  • That seems like a crazily low number of songs.
    Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Guessing crazily at the future, the gambler is granted, briefly, the gift of now.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Together, the princess and the first lady greeted Dwayne Fields, chief scout, and could be seen chatting animatedly to him.
    Isaac Bickerstaff, Glamour, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Usher and his wife, Jennifer Raymond, were seated next to the Jonases, with both singer husbands talking animatedly.
    Anika Reed, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Countless moths beat frenetically around the trap’s white, diaphanous panels, which are swaying with ghostly ripples in a gentle breeze.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Singer Brendan Yates’ intensity — at one point leaping with abandon, at another frenetically thrusting — is what makes Turnstile cook.
    Daniel Kohn, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Skittishly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skittishly. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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