All 10 Uses of
wary
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- He shaved warily over his chin.†
Chpt 1 *warily = in a nervous or distrustful manner
- He coasted them, walking warily.†
Chpt 3
- Mr Bloom coasted warily.†
Chpt 8
- Between the car and window, warily walking, went Bloom, unconquered hero.†
Chpt 11
- Black wary hecat walked towards Richie Goulding's legal bag, lifted aloft, saluting.†
Chpt 11wary = careful, nervous, or distrustful
- Truest bedthanes they twain are, for Horne holding wariest ward.†
Chpt 14
- In ward wary the watcher hearing come that man mildhearted eft rising with swire ywimpled to him her gate wide undid.†
Chpt 14wary = careful, nervous, or distrustful
- A wariness of mind he would answer as fitted all and, laying hand to jaw, he said dissembling, as his wont was, that as it was informed him, who had ever loved the art of physic as might a layman, and agreeing also with his experience of so seldomseen an accident it was good for that mother Church belike at one blow had birth and death pence and in such sort deliverly he scaped their questions.†
Chpt 14wariness = caution or distrust
- It was now for more than the middle span of our allotted years that he had passed through the thousand vicissitudes of existence and, being of a wary ascendancy and self a man of rare forecast, he had enjoined his heart to repress all motions of a rising choler and, by intercepting them with the readiest precaution, foster within his breast that plenitude of sufferance which base minds jeer at, rash judgers scorn and all find tolerable and but tolerable.†
Chpt 14wary = careful, nervous, or distrustful
- Warily, Malachi whispered, preserve a druid silence.†
Chpt 14warily = in a nervous or distrustful manner
Definition:
careful or nervous about something