0 (of people and animals) in a way that is nervous or easily frightened:
The horse moved skittishly but he steadied her, using his feet.
She skittishly refused to be introduced to the director and cast.
The animal made a half parenthesis of himself, curving skittishly, and watching jealously, as he went by the frightsome pile.
The increasing breeze, blowing against the ocean current, kicked up a lively chop, on which the dory danced skittishly.
He pranced skittishly until she spoke.
So the ship rose lightly, almost skittishly.
