Synonyms for leery
ˈlɪər ilee·ry

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1. leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, waryadjective

   openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

   Synonyms:
   fishy, wary, shady, funny, suspicious, suspect, untrusting, mistrustful

   Antonyms:
   trustful, trusting

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1. James Abts:

   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.

2. Jim Marren:

   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?

3. Bob Baffert:

   Just an incredible horse, what he does is amazing. American Pharoah from day one people were expecting this and with the weather I was getting a little leery but great horses do great things and he showed it today.

4. Mark Thompson:

   We tend to be quite leery about the idea of almost habituating people to find our journalism somewhere else, we're also generically worried about our journalism being scrambled in a kind of Magimix (blender) with everyone else's journalism.

5. Solomon Lartey:

   I guess they didn't want to get it out, when( chief of staff John) Kelly came in, they were leery of the leaks.