skittishly

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for skittishly
Adverb
  • The Giants desperately need Thomas, who has missed 18 games the past two seasons, to stay healthy.
    Dan Duggan, New York Times, 19 June 2025
  • However, heroin smuggling is the very same enterprise Harlan worked desperately to extract himself from decades earlier.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 19 June 2025
Adverb
  • Aid workers said different departments frantically drafted their own lists of awards to keep or restore, but no one seemed to be looking at the big picture.
    Amy Schoenfeld Walker, New York Times, 22 June 2025
  • In the footage, Usopp was pacing his kennel, frantically leaping at the walls.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025
Adverb
  • Then again, maybe $1,000 just rolls trippingly off the tongue and into Trump’s good graces.
    Stephen Gandel, The Seattle Times, 3 Feb. 2018
  • One man, whose arrogance and ego lead him trippingly into chaos of his own making, can turn a shining city on the hill into a shadowy, taudry replica of itself. …
    James Hohmann, Washington Post, 14 July 2017
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“Skittishly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skittishly. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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