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Definition
nervous about (or distrustful of) someone or something
- He had to walk warily.111-112 — Chapters 111-112 (4% in)
- It was a Byzantine cistern, which the popular fancy had endowed with fantastic vastness; and the legend which he read told that a boat was always moored at the entrance to tempt the unwary, but no traveller venturing into the darkness had ever been seen again.9-10 — Chapters 9-10 (46% in)
There are no more uses of "wary" in Of Human Bondage.
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