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What does skittishly mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a skittish manner.
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But most Democrats who are on the ballot in competitive races this year skittishly avoid such stark imagery.
They are about style, while skittishly refusing to vote for one style or another.
Brathwaite fended skittishly to Root at short leg and the hosts went to the interval in trouble on nine for one.
I was also delighted by the way that Anna of Little Red Boat skittishly bent the concept towards her own ends.
He threw a pine cone at a squirrel, who ran away skittishly up a tree.
We began cheerfully, one might almost say skittishly, but our light-heartedness was gone by the time the first potato was finished.

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