8 uses
(click/touch triangles for details)
Definition
nervous about (or distrustful of) someone or something
- Here she paused to take a breath, and then she turned to Phoebe, who was looking at her with wide, wary eyes.p. 387.9
- 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. 91.9
- Watching them, her heart always opened with a kind of wary gladness.p. 134.5
- Mark was watching him less warily now.p. 147.8
- 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. 260.1
- 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
There are no more uses of "wary" in The Memory Keeper’s Daughter.
Typical Usage
(best examples)