skittishly

adverb

Definition of skittishlynext
1
as in agitatedly

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2
as in playfully

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  1. desperately
  2. frantically
  3. trippingly
Adverb
  • Liverpool desperately need to maintain their six-point lead at the top of the table with both Arsenal and Forest in touching distance.
    Oli Gamp, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Undersea cables have been vital to the sovereignty of Estonia, a former Soviet republic that borders Russia and desperately needs to maintain power and communications channels that are free from Moscow’s control.
    Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2025
Definition of desperately
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  • While the rest of the globe frantically fetishized growth targets, Bhutan shunned opportunities to monetize its considerable natural resources—including lumber, coal, and minerals—that would have come at the expense of the environment.
    By Charlie Campbell/Gelephu, Bhutan, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025
  • In a 911 call recording played at the press conference, a woman is heard frantically asking for help.
    Samira Asma-Sadeque, People.com, 15 Jan. 2025
Definition of frantically
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  • 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
Definition of trippingly
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