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BNC: 44603 COCA: 16674
variants or less commonly leary
: suspicious, wary
often used with of
leery of strangersShe seemed a little leery of the proposal.

Example Sentences

They were leery of their neighbors.
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Word History

First Known Use

1718, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of leery was in 1718

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