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Leery   /lˈɪri/   Listen
Leery

adjective
1.
Openly distrustful and unwilling to confide.  Synonyms: mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary.






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"Leery" Quotes from Famous Books



... sort of cattle altogether, and I didn't like the looks of this 'ere one at all. She came up quite vicious-like to look after us. You see her eye, Mr Rodd, sir? I did, sir, for a moment. There was a sort of leery look about it, and it seemed to me as if she had just picked you out and meant to have you. All the lads here know I'm one as never brags, but if there's a bit of fighting on I am always ready to stick to my mates, just ...
— The Ocean Cat's Paw - The Story of a Strange Cruise • George Manville Fenn

... that give you the pip? Why, with their specialists and medicated dope, they'd got the old chap so leery of good straight grub that he was bein' starved to death. And even after I'd got him braced up into something like condition, he didn't think it was hardly ...
— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford



Words linked to "Leery" :   mistrustful, distrustful, leer



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