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Synonyms for leery
ˈlɪər ilee·ry
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Princeton's WordNet
leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, waryadjective
openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
Synonyms:
fishy, wary, shady, funny, suspicious, suspect, untrusting, mistrustful
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#2347 | funny | |
#6236 | suspect | |
#13890 | suspicious | |
#17229 | shady | |
#22516 | wary | |
#33634 | fishy | |
#73905 | leery | |
#111586 | mistrustful | |
#318287 | untrusting |
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I guess they didn't want to get it out, when( chief of staff John) Kelly came in, they were leery of the leaks.
We tend to be quite leery about the idea of almost habituating people to find our journalism somewhere else, we're also generically worried about our journalism being scrambled in a kind of Magimix (blender) with everyone else's journalism.
We need to protect our farmers by not needlessly starting a trade war that’s too aggressive of a policy that’s going to cause a backlash for our farmers, now, it is possible that both sides will back down on this and this is not to say that the United States should not do anything [but] generally as an economist I am very leery of tariffs interfering with free trade.
Just an incredible horse, what he does is amazing. American Pharoah from day one people were expecting this and with the weather I was getting a little leery but great horses do great things and he showed it today.
I really don't like this electronic stuff because it can be hacked. Where does the information go ? i'm just a little leery, that's all.
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