All 8 Uses of
wary
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- When Dorothy March, tall and slender in a trim gray suit, finally opened the door, Caroline ignored her wary glance at Phoebe, lifted the car seat, and stepped inside.†
p. 91.9wary = careful, nervous, or distrustful
- Watching them, her heart always opened with a kind of wary gladness.†
p. 134.5
- Mark was watching him less warily now.†
p. 147.7warily = in a nervous or distrustful manner
- In the first weeks, Caroline had watched warily, braced against the sorts of comments she'd heard too often, on playgrounds, at the grocery store, in the doctor's office.†
p. 159.2
- He sat on the edge of the bed, too stunned, too wary of good news—as he would always be, all his life—to allow himself real joy.†
p. 260.1wary = careful, nervous, or distrustful
- She looked at him for a moment; her eyes were warm, sherry-tinted brown, wary.†
p. 268.2
- He opened his eyes to see her stepping back, her eyes, bright and wary, fixed on his, her scissors glinting.†
p. 275.9 *
- Here she paused to take a breath, and then she turned to Phoebe, who was looking at her with wide, wary eyes.†
p. 387.8
Definition:
careful or nervous about something