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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wary
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
extremely
▪ Because she herself had subsequently been extremely wary of any emotional entanglements.
▪ Chital are extremely wary animals that alert each other to danger with a whistling call.
▪ That is something of which we ought to be extremely wary.
▪ Some have become extremely wary of men through their experiences, and feel suspicious and distrustful.
more
▪ But soon nervous, timid seals tended to live longer than trusting ones, so gradually seals grew more and more wary.
▪ The incident had made Mr Roche, who was not adventurous, even more wary.
▪ But my traveling companion, more wary and savvy than I, smelled scam.
still
▪ Lucy, still wary, watched him for a moment longer.
▪ He was still wary of her taking things amiss.
very
▪ The managements were very wary of taking her on, of course.
▪ Consumers have become very wary and are spending much less.
▪ As for coming out: you are very wary.
▪ They may be distressed about visiting a prison - they may be very wary.
▪ I am very, very wary of people.
▪ They are the Robemaker's sentinels, the effluence of necromancy, and you must be very very wary indeed of them.
▪ Certainly while we looked on, the pigeons were keeping a very wary distance.
■ NOUN
eye
▪ Under the wary eye of Inspector Fouchard, he turned his attention to the dagger.
▪ He turned out to be a slight boy with dark, wary eyes and black hair cut short.
▪ Once across the allotments he walked more openly, even though he kept a wary eye out behind him.
▪ Jimmy seemed aware of that too, and kept a wary eye on him while he addressed Cardiff.
▪ We've go to keep a wary eye on what they're doing.
▪ All the tensed heads came up hopefully, all the too quiescent bodies braced, all the wary eyes gleamed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Wary of becoming entangled in her friend's family quarrels, Eileen made an excuse and left.
▪ One of the guards was fiddling with his radio, all the time keeping a wary eye on the five prisoners.
▪ She had become extremely wary of relationships as a result of her childhood experiences.
▪ The problems with selling the house had made her much more wary about financial matters.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A natural gas explosion that killed three and injured more than 20 others in 1992 has made the community particularly wary.
▪ As for coming out: you are very wary.
▪ Be wary of advisers who recommend that you sell all your current investments in order to buy new ones.
▪ Consumers have become very wary and are spending much less.
▪ One also needs to be wary of the inequalities that market mechanisms bring in their wake.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
wary

Warye \War"ye\, v. t. [AS. wergian, wyrgean. Cf. Worry.] To curse; to curse; to execrate; to condemn; also, to vex. [Obs.] [Spelled also warrie, warry, and wary.] ``Whom I thus blame and warye.''
--Chaucer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wary

late 15c., with -y (2) + ware, from Old English wær "prudent, aware, alert, wary," from Proto-Germanic *waraz (cognates: Old Norse varr "attentive," Gothic wars "cautious," Old Saxon giwar, Middle Dutch gheware, Old High German giwar, German gewahr "aware"), from PIE root *wer- (4) "to perceive, watch out for" (see ward (n.)). Related: Warily; wariness.

Wiktionary
wary

a. 1 cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful. 2 Characterized by caution; guarded; careful.

WordNet
wary

  1. adj. marked by keen caution and watchful prudence; "they were wary in their movements"; "a wary glance at the black clouds"; "taught to be wary of strangers" [ant: unwary]

  2. openly distrustful and unwilling to confide [syn: leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting]

  3. [also: wariest, warier]

Wikipedia
WARY

WARY (88.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Variety format. Licensed to Valhalla, New York, USA, the station is currently owned by Westchester Community College (WCC). The station is officially licensed from the Federal Communications Commission.

WARY broadcasts from in the basement of WCC's student center. The station is mainly run by the students of WCC with an all student E-Board with a school faculty member as the station manager. Each year, the station tries to have their very own concert during the month of May which is often referred to "WARY-Fest" or the "WARY-Showcase".

Programming includes talk radio, rock music, hip-hop, disk jockey, indie music, and a variety of other formats.

Former students from WARY went on to work for employers such as WXRK, Goom Radio, The Opie and Anthony Show, Sirius Satellite Radio, and The Howard Stern Show.

Usage examples of "wary".

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He continued as always to keep his distance, wary either of her, so strange, so alien, officially anathema, or of his own kind, the Engineers, as represented by Hrecker and his security force.

Perched on a jutting eminence, and half shrouded in the bushes which clothed it, the silent fisherman took his place, while his fly was made to kiss the water in capricious evolutions, such as the experienced angler knows how to employ to beguile the wary victim from close cove, or gloomy hollow, or from beneath those decaying trunks of overthrown trees which have given his brood a shelter from immemorial time.

The Bravo hesitated, cast another wary glance around him, settled his mask, undid the slight fastenings of a boat, and presently he was gliding away into the centre of the basin.

They rode with a particularly wary air about them, and dark burnouses wrapped their heads and swathed their faces.

Grabbing his gear, the Extinguisher followed the wary figure, casting frequent glances over his backtrail in case pursuit materialized.

Some say that a mermaid is a symbol of vanity and lust, sins of which man must ever be wary.

The man has just noticed Microtron, and he takes a wary step back from him and jerks his rifle up to cover him.

The Morganites were notorious troublemakers and, besides, the Federals and the Victoria League were traditional, if mutually wary, allies.

His father, the duke, has always been wary of Palle, and Lord Jaimas is no fool.

Then, with a wary look behind him, he moved to a corner of the partitioned space, where three lockers formed a row.

A SERGEANT OF THE LAW, wary and wise, That often had y-been at the Parvis, There was also, full rich of excellence.

Even a Pict commonly wary of sorcery would lose fear of wizardry and all else in his war-frenzy, and slay what stood before him without caring much what it was.

Giving him a wary look Poly put her hand in his as they left the bus, and held it firmly until they were safely in the plane.

As Prew watched, the old wild wary miserly look that Prew had learned to recognise, came into his face.