How to Use trepidatious in a Sentence

trepidatious

adjective

• Fans of the game were trepidatious at first, worried that the newspaper would ruin it.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 9 Apr. 2022
• So [creator] Jesse [Armstrong] and I and the whole team go into the next season just so paranoid, trepidatious about not wanting the bar to lower.
  — William Earl, Variety, 17 Nov. 2022
• Crutchfield, who seems a bit more trepidatious in unleashing her twang, anchors the record.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
• Hong Kong’s future is at a trepidatious crossroad and Beijing knows it.
  — Karson Yiu, ABC News, 30 June 2022
• Baker is a little trepidatious about returning to the road after three years off.
  — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2022
• Gabrielle Reece snapped on a swim cap and held out a mask to an appropriately trepidatious visitor.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2016
• Rowland also admitted to feeling a bit trepidatious about sharing the news with the world during such uncertain times.
  — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 30 Jan. 2021
• Many locals may still feel trepidatious, but many local business owners recognize that a town that relies on tourism to survive cannot simply turn tourists away.
  — oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2020
• All working trompe-l’oeil painters, the trio are both jazzed and trepidatious about the reunion; the intensity of their training, almost ten years before, bonded them as friends and cemented them as competitors.
  — Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
• The song itself plays out like a hallucinoeginc journey, beginning slowly with trepidatious steps over the edge of its excitement.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 8 Aug. 2019
• The 45-year-old star of Mike Flanagan‘s Netflix series (premiering Friday) about a dark force stalking an isolated island community, was already trepidatious about having to shoot nine pages of monologue on the first day.
  — Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
• Entertainment has been a critical outlet for our society throughout the uncertainty of lockdown, and the trepidatious return to our new norms.
  — Rivea Ruff, Essence, 16 Dec. 2021
• News of Zucker’s contract renewal will therefore presumably come as a sigh of relief for an organization whose employees are already somewhat trepidatious about what, if anything, might change once AT&T starts cutting their paychecks.
  — Joe Pompeo, The Hive, 13 June 2018
• Foolhardy animals perish, but overly trepidatious individuals can likewise fail to pass on their genes, because of starvation, stress, and isolation.
  — Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2020
• Despite her friend’s support, Contillo was trepidatious about applying.
  — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 5 May 2022
• As a philosophy, JAP style prioritizes grooming, trepidatious trendiness, and comfort.
  — Jamie Lauren Keiles, Vox, 5 Dec. 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024