Describe yourself as wary if you don't quite trust someone or something and want to proceed with caution. Be wary of risky things like wild mushrooms and Internet deals!
Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful.
Adjective
marked by keen caution and watchful prudence; "they were wary in their movements"; "a wary glance at the black clouds"; "taught to be wary of strangers"
Adjective S.
openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
a.
Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against
deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent;
circumspect; scrupulous; careful.
a.
Characterized by caution; guarded; careful.
Wary
We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men.2.
It behoveth our words to be wary and few.
Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful.
Usage Examples
The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.
Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.
I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.
I've always been wary of marriage.
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Other Usage ExamplesMen are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was complicated. I often hid from the critical eye of their cameras and their omnipresent digital recorders, wary of the critique implicit in every captured moment. But I also grew to respect and understand their passion for their work, their love for the journey we were sharing.
People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.
I'm very wary of trust, you see.
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