Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word SKITTISH

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Definitions of SKITTISH

1. Easily scared or startled; timid.
2. Difficult to manage; tricky.
3. Wanton; changeable; fickle.

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Examples of Using SKITTISH in a Sentence

• Anderson declared Adam as having caused for Coleco "a trail of broken promises, unfulfilled expectations, and extremely skittish stockholders".
• Reviewing for Miami New Times, David Ehrenstein compared the film to Making Love (1982), considering that the film "is less sexually skittish than its predecessor, and a lot less reassuring about the marital dissolution in the wake of homosexual self-discovery".
• A wood-burning 0-4-0 design, it was the 127th locomotive built by Stephenson and was nicknamed "Kitten" by those who observed its uneven "skittish" ride – a result of the short wheelbase.
• Musically, the album was described by Paste critic Lizzie Manno as featuring "a bold, drum-centric", "polychromatic", and "coltish" pop style, with "a skittish punk energy and fierce grooves".
• After the debacle of Bladenburg, Winder was quickly maneuvered by the skittish Baltimoreans' municipal, business and military leaders out of having any significant command at Baltimore in favor of the highly competent Samuel Smith, a former Revolutionary War officer and commander, wealthy city merchant and shipper, former U.
• David Browne from Entertainment Weekly highlighted the song's "skittish, pared-down guitar opening" as "fresh and surprising", evoking a vibe "sexier than her Matrix Super Bowl Revolutions outfit"; however, he saw the single as "another lighter-than-air trifle in a career filled with too many of them".
• In Latin America, it aired on Nickelodeon under the title Los Grafitos, which translates to "The Graphites" in Spanish, and as Os Rabiscos Ariscos, or "The Skittish Doodles" in Portuguese, also on Nickelodeon.
• Jocko isn't very courageous, being rather skittish and nebbish (Dusty also seems to get his usual deportment from him apparently).
• In southeastern Brazil, it is considered as a skittish species, being much more heard than seen in cities like Campinas or Ribeirão Preto, but in other parts of Brazil, such as Brasília or Goiânia this species can be found much closer to people, scratching on sidewalks in the same way as its congener, the ruddy ground-dove (Columbina talpacoti).
• Chuck Taylor of Billboard Magazine depicted "Break Anotha", which has drawn 76,000 streams on the day it premiered on "AOL First Listen", as "a lightning rod of rock'n'funk, meshing busy, skittish production and enough tempo stops and starts to build one clever three-minute jam", as well as channeling Justin Timberlake "with fluffed harmonic layers and falsetto as he sings a rapid-fire lyric about a playa".
• Sure, La Bassey laps up her imperious seen-it-all vocal like she's sucking down a mouthful of melted Belgian chocolate, but the Props seem too awestruck and reverential to provide anything but jaunty cha-cha-cha beats and some skittish techno-lite for afters.
• The rest of the passengers include single mother Maudie McMinn, moody, wayward father Sam Cutter, tough woman Desiree, her extremely skittish boyfriend Duke, Annabel Drake a vegan who happens to be a competitive archer, and Ramon Vargas a Spanish-speaking electrician.
• Finally, on 16 September 1777 de Coudray stupidly rode his horse onto a Schuylkill River ferryboat and the skittish animal leaped overboard, drowning its rider.
• Underwhelmed with the opening chapter's "skittish" parkour, Edge noted the game became more fun when Delsin gained powers and reached Seattle.
• Schilling excoriated the "profoundly frustrating" controls as the worst in the series, explaining that "Sonic's too sluggish while walking, and too skittish to cope with the trickier platforming bits when running".
• The first to fall in the competition of nine was Almeda Pennington on "skittish" (9th place), followed by Mary Coddens ("cosmos") (8th place), Loren Mackey ("propeller") (7th place), Patrick Kelly ("blackguard") (6th place), and Dorothy Karrick ("statistician") (5th place).
• Ivy scoffs at Ally's threats of retaliation and warns her that she will revert to her old skittish ways but Ally had laced the pasta and wine Ivy has been consuming with arsenic.
• "My High", featuring Aminé and Slowthai, is a "skittish" and "impressively relentless" samba-hip house song "intended to chivvy the dancefloor along into delirium", with a jagged bassline that warps into acid squiggles.
• Just below the surface, the music sizzles with modernist harmonies, fractured phrases, gaggles of counterpoint and lyrical strands that keep breaking into skittish bits.
• Jon Caramanica of The New York Times remarks that McRae's "dry, wiry voice is well suited to the convincingly mopey and skittish punk-pop thumper about envy".

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