trepidatious

"Calling her up was a little trepidatious," he said.

Excited and trepidatious, Ginger put on a robe over her pajamas.

That was the most trepidatious part of it."

She looked back, her expression half trepidatious, half hopeful.

But he was also trepidatious.

He had no logical reason to feel trepidatious; still, some atavistic sense stirred within him, and he prepared himself for the worst.

It contained the usual split between trepidatious crew and ridiculously exuberant Deadnights.

She never appears "shocked, trepidatious, or scared".

Naturally, I was trepidatious but when I rang on the agreed date, she answered the phone and this time seemed prepared to talk to me.

Suzanne F. Farmer, Mr. Peterson's chief of staff, said he is "trepidatious" about the outcome.

Both his painting and his filmmaking often dwelt on shapes and his own feelings, often trepidatious, about them.

Most Honest Self-Assessment by a Celebrity: "I'm a little trepidatious about coming to New Hampshire.

When I heard that Amiga OS 4.1 would feature a composited window display, I was at the same time excited and trepidatious.

McGillion described his character as trepidatious, but Beckett gains more courage throughout the series as he becomes more familiar with his surroundings in Atlantis and offworld.

T'Pol also didn't miss the trepidatious look on Ko's face as he accompanied her into the bridge turbolift, where he stood as far away from her as possible.

I had been sent to interview him for a Sight & Sound magazine censorship special and I was trepidatious - there is, after all, a maxim that says you should never meet your heroes.

Mr. Cameron said he had been "trepidatious" about becoming involved in the project but got engaged out of "great passion for a good detective story," not to offend and not to cash in.

Trepidatious publishers and touchy establishments aside, there may be good reasons to stay away from discussions of "the essential Jew" or for that matter essentialist versions of any other national, ethnic or religious group.

It was the sort of trepidatious reaction that Mr. Kean, who Republicans consider their strongest hope in a decade for a statewide victory, will have to improve upon in a competitive race against a seasoned and sharp-elbowed opponent.

"And when you encounter someone of her stature, you are a little trepidatious that she may turn out to be less than you hope and your heart will be broken, and she does not and she does not.

At first they were timid and trepidatious, and fingered athwart the threshold; later, when naught betide, the younger and bolder men amongst them ventured into the house, but cautiously: for it is never prudent to enter the houses of sorcerers unbidden.

COLLETTE LOVULLO had some qualms about decorating Coco & Delilah, her year-old boutique on St. Marks Place near Avenue A. "I was trepidatious about the chandelier," she said, eyeing the multi-tentacled fixture dangling from the ceiling.

Bozo is trepidatious; but as Buddy prepares to demonstrate how little the method hurts, a cat comes in, spooks the dog, and causes Bozo, attached by string to Buddy, to chase the creature out of the house: they go through fountains and Buddy becomes trapped in a toy wagon.