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Antonyms for leery
ˈlɪər ilee·ry
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Princeton's WordNet
leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, waryadjective
openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
Synonyms:
fishy, wary, shady, funny, suspicious, suspect, untrusting, mistrustful
How to use leery in a sentence?
I think she kind of feels like she’s an elitist. She can get by with these things, it doesn’t ring right to me. You know, it kind of makes me a little leery about how trustworthy is she gonna be as a president?
But I am still a little leery that there could be another variant around the corner, i am still going to wear a mask.
Any time something like this happens it's going to make you second guess the actions that you take, and the problem with that is when you're second guessing what you're supposed to be doing, people could evade apprehension, you could end up getting yourself hurt, you could end up getting innocent third parties hurt -- because you don't take the actions that are necessary because you're worried you're going to be second guessed by the president of the United States, we’re not talking about being second guessed by someone with a camera, we’re talking about being second guessed by the president of the United States and that's the political situation we’re currently under, and any time that happens of course we’re going to be very, very leery about the actions we take.
I really don't like this electronic stuff because it can be hacked. Where does the information go ? i'm just a little leery, that's all.
I guess they didn't want to get it out, when( chief of staff John) Kelly came in, they were leery of the leaks.
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