leary vs leery
Definitions
noun
- United States psychologist who experimented with psychoactive drugs (including LSD) and became a well-known advocate of their use (1920-1996)
Examples
Instead of the grim faces of commuters on their way into work, people were bleary-eyed but smiling for no particular reason.
Everyone I've seen in London today has got bleary eyes, and is yawning.
He pulled a grimy handkerchief from his pocket and let fly with a wet honk into the rag, then he looked at them with bleary eyes.
Definitions
adjective
- openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
Examples
In the same article linked to above, Environment Minister Leona Dombrowsky said that she's "leery" about incineration and approves of composting.
I’m leery of it in some ways, because part of my issue with the inaccuracy of cisgender is that it privileges gender identification more than anything.
So it degenerates into a species of word-juggleery that at first astonishes by its unexpectedness, then pleases by its dexterity, and finally offends by reason if its misplaced ingenuity.
