trepidatious

adj

1. In a state of trepidation; fearful.

   “Hilda looked up from the papers she had been busy with as he entered -- in fact, made a guilty and trepdatious attempt at sweeping them out of sight, which suggested a weakness entirely foreign to her.”

   “He looks a little trepidatious too, and we both laugh awkwardly as he nears me.”

   “Factor in Grammer’s outspoken Trumpism, which complicates the legacy of his defining role, and fans may be forgiven for feeling trepidatious.”