Synonyms for leery
ˈlɪər ilee·ry

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1. leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, waryadjective

   openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

   Synonyms:
   fishy, wary, shady, funny, suspicious, suspect, untrusting, mistrustful

   Antonyms:
   trustful, trusting

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1. Mark Thompson:

   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.

2. Jeff Tjornehoj:

   Retail investors have been leery about equity for some time, they want to see a sustained rally.

3. Solomon Lartey:

   I guess they didn't want to get it out, when( chief of staff John) Kelly came in, they were leery of the leaks.

4. Bob Baffert:

   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.

5. Jeffrey Kargel:

   I am leery of attributing everything bad in nature to climate change, sorting out what's specifically due to climate change and what's not is a difficult and sometimes impossible task. That said, it's clear climate is changing all over the world, including in Nepal.