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More damagingly, it doesn’t seem as if Hnath’s Nora has evolved all that much from the skittishly coquettish wife of Ibsen’s play.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2025

Scientific observers said the whale was behaving skittishly, rising to the surface only briefly, and emitting fewer of the songs expected of a whale - raising further concerns over its wellbeing.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2022

Those of us who went to work in person, did so skittishly, with concern often and amidst risk.

From Salon • Nov. 11, 2021

But I was skittishly anticipating other people’s “atavistic response to any aberrant motion,” as Michael J. Fox describes it.

From Slate • Jul. 6, 2021

The later subtleties of unadmitted advertising, the headline, the skittishly impressionistic descriptive masterpieces of 'our special representative,' and the halfpenny newspapers, were all unthought-of boons, then.

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)