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Guardedly

Guarded \Guard"ed\, a. Cautious; wary; circumspect; as, he was guarded in his expressions; framed or uttered with caution; as, his expressions were guarded. -- Guard"edly, adv. -- Guard"ed*ness, n.

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guardedly

adv. In a guarded manner.

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guardedly

adv. in a conservative manner; "we estimated the number of demonstrators conservatively at 200,000." [syn: conservatively, cautiously]

Usage examples of "guardedly".

Hard-looking men lounged near fires, watching guardedly as Jimmy and Malar moved past.

For example, when the autopsy shewed the brain and several other internal organs of the petrified Fijian to be fresh and unpetrified, though hermetically sealed by the petrification of the exterior flesh - an anomaly about which physicians are still guardedly and bewilderedly debating - we did not wish a furore to be started.

These last speak very highly of the wooden figures in the Entombment chapel, and so more guardedly does Bordiga.

Tinnie got the most attention but simmered when I took a turn with Alyx or Nicks or Kittyjo—once, guardedly.

It was as if, with her effective little entresol and her wide acquaintance, her activities, varieties, promiscuities, the duties and devotions that took ninetenths of her time and of which he got, guardedly, but the side-wind—it was as if she had shrunk to a secondary element and had consented to the shrinkage with the perfection of tact.

When I present this armful to Evan, he rolls back his chair and looks up at me guardedly.