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Wary   /wˈɛri/   Listen
adjective
Wary  adj.  (compar. warier; superl. wariest)  
1.
Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful. "Bear a wary eye." "We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men."
2.
Characterized by caution; guarded; careful. "It behoveth our words to be wary and few."
Synonyms: Cautious; circumspect; watchful. See Cautious.



verb
Warye  v. t.  (Spelled also warrie, warry, and wary)  To curse; to curse; to execrate; to condemn; also, to vex. (Obs.) "Whom I thus blame and warye."






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"Wary" Quotes from Famous Books



... car and window, warily walking, went Bloom, unconquered hero. See me he might. The seat he sat on: warm. Black wary hecat walked towards Richie Goulding's legal ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce

... doomed to disappointment. When they overtook Etzooah they saw that the red man's open, friendly look had changed. He turned a hard, wary eye on them, just like all the other Kakisas. Stonor guessed that he must have visited his people in the interim, and have been filled up with their nonsensical tales. Affecting to notice no ...
— The Woman from Outside - [on Swan River] • Hulbert Footner

... words and actions, and it is the evident moral of the Iliad to represent its pernicious effects on the affairs of the Helenic confederacy. Ulysses never utters a word in which the cautious and prudent counsellor, sagacious in design but prompt in execution, wary in the council but decided in the field, far-seeing but yet persevering, is not apparent. Diomede never falters; alike in the field and the council he is indomitable. When Hector was careering in his chariot round their fortifications, and the king of men counselled retreat, he ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 • Various

... and most inaccessible rocks, and only descending into the valleys to feed early in the morning and late in the evening. When disturbed in the daytime amongst the roughest and most precipitous rocks, it bounds along from one to the other with the greatest apparent facility, and is so watchful and wary in its habits that it is by no means easy to get a shot at it. One very surprising thing is, how it can support the temperature to which it is exposed in the situations it always frequents amongst ...
— Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 1 (of 2) • George Grey

... closely-buttoned coat and a walking stick. He is sharp, quick in resenting aggressions, would soon have his native blood stirred, is tempted to be a little imperious, considers that he is a power in the district, has much endurance, is systematical in thought, wary in expression, hesitates and flutters a little in some of his sentences, has a strong Hibernian brogue, but is precise with it; throws more recollection than original thought into his utterances, visits his district well, is a fair scholar, is dry and prosaic until warmed up, can ...
— Our Churches and Chapels • Atticus


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