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Definition
nervous about (or distrustful of) someone or something
- But everything makes me wary now.Chapter 13 (63% in)
wary = careful or distrustful
- Each time, Elizabeth looks a little warier.Chapter 6 (63% in)
- Slowly, warily, Minny settles again in her chair.Chapter 12 (95% in)
- I study my hands, still wary of what he might have heard, and a little irritated too.Chapter 28 (48% in)
- "Um, sure," I say, wary.Chapter 33 (26% in)
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