What is "wariness"

Usage examples of "wariness".

Veterans Building, Franz resumed his sidewise and backward peerings, now somewhat randomized, yet he was conscious not so much of fear as of wariness, as if he were a savage on a mission in a concrete jungle, traveling along the bottoms of perilously wailed, rectilineal gorges.

In his new role as a heroin trafficker, Ruggiero exhibited an uncharacteristic wariness.

She had noticed signs of tension and wariness in both of them when Uhura had beamed down to New Ibadan, but they seemed to have put aside their differences in the face of the alien threat.

In fact they grilled Jilly as if they believed a chador and a submachine gun were concealed under the car seat, and they studied Fred with wariness and skepticism, as though convinced that he was of Mideastern origin, held fanatical political views, and harbored evil intentions.

Hela, but something in her voice made Lissar look up at her again, and there was that expression, much like what she had seen in so many of the faces she had looked at since she came down from the mountains: something like awe, something like wistfulness, something like wariness.

For the adults, the specter of the goblins brought a sobering wariness and then a troublesome distraction.

Vittoria had been the least eager of all, and Langdon had seen in her eyes a wariness that looked, unsettlingly, a lot like female intuition.

There was wariness and suspicion in that voice, and Arrhae wondered why.

The certainty of her wariness was all that was keeping his hands where they were, stroking her back with slow sweeps that belied the passionate blaze of his narrowed eyes.

Dominated by poor cockneys, it was increasingly populated by immigrants straight off the docks, particularly Eastern European Jews escaping persecution and pogroms, with their strange languages, insular customs, and wariness of gentiles.

There was a corrosiveness to it he must guard against constantly, yet for all his wariness, the corrosion tasted sweet, as well.

They turned and focused on Alston with the same wariness and hate, perhaps the more so because of her strange skin and features.

At this juncture Maureen couldn't prevent herself from butting in: the accuracy of the story apparently took precedence over her wariness.

Rachel's initial wariness of Mark disappeared as she watched him carry furniture and wash windows, and listened to him exchange friendly insults with Alice, Cheryl's cleaning woman.

They all had the wariness that Ryan could feel in his own people, yet they had all relaxed the instant Correll had spoken, as though they trusted his every word, as well as following it.