[
US
/ˈwɛɹi/
]
[ UK /wˈeəɹi/ ]
[ UK /wˈeəɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
-
marked by keen caution and watchful prudence
taught to be wary of strangers
they were wary in their movements
a wary glance at the black clouds
How To Use wary In A Sentence
- Sceptics stung by that debacle may still be wary. Times, Sunday Times
- The police will need to keep a wary eye on this area of town .
- A curious and unwary fish would become a meal when the goosefish inhaled and quickly engulfed its prey.
- In the hands of the untrained and unwary it can cause untold damage to your wealth.
- Fish were abundant, to be sure, along that coast, where the invisible fruitfulness of the sea made compensation for the blank barrenness of the land; but they were swift and wary, and had to be caught, one at a time, outwitted and outspeeded in their own element. Kings in Exile
- The cassowary evolved amid the Wet Tropics, thriving on figs, quandongs, and other distinctive fruits.
- Many South Africans are apparently wary of what they see as ignoble intentions by profit-hungry American drug companies.
- Somehow that was considerate of them, but they still were wary.
- With its quicksands the river usually drowns a few unwary visitors every season.
- He was a suspicious cat, wary of people getting pensive.
