adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
extremely
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Because she herself had subsequently been extremely wary of any emotional entanglements.
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Chital are extremely wary animals that alert each other to danger with a whistling call.
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That is something of which we ought to be extremely wary .
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Some have become extremely wary of men through their experiences, and feel suspicious and distrustful.
more
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But soon nervous, timid seals tended to live longer than trusting ones, so gradually seals grew more and more wary .
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The incident had made Mr Roche, who was not adventurous, even more wary .
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But my traveling companion, more wary and savvy than I, smelled scam.
still
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Lucy, still wary , watched him for a moment longer.
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He was still wary of her taking things amiss.
very
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The managements were very wary of taking her on, of course.
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Consumers have become very wary and are spending much less.
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As for coming out: you are very wary .
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They may be distressed about visiting a prison - they may be very wary .
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I am very , very wary of people.
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They are the Robemaker's sentinels, the effluence of necromancy, and you must be very very wary indeed of them.
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Certainly while we looked on, the pigeons were keeping a very wary distance.
■ NOUN
eye
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Under the wary eye of Inspector Fouchard, he turned his attention to the dagger.
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He turned out to be a slight boy with dark, wary eyes and black hair cut short.
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Once across the allotments he walked more openly, even though he kept a wary eye out behind him.
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Jimmy seemed aware of that too, and kept a wary eye on him while he addressed Cardiff.
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We've go to keep a wary eye on what they're doing.
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All the tensed heads came up hopefully, all the too quiescent bodies braced, all the wary eyes gleamed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Wary of becoming entangled in her friend's family quarrels, Eileen made an excuse and left.
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One of the guards was fiddling with his radio, all the time keeping a wary eye on the five prisoners.
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She had become extremely wary of relationships as a result of her childhood experiences.
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The problems with selling the house had made her much more wary about financial matters.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A natural gas explosion that killed three and injured more than 20 others in 1992 has made the community particularly wary .
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As for coming out: you are very wary .
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Be wary of advisers who recommend that you sell all your current investments in order to buy new ones.
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Consumers have become very wary and are spending much less.
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One also needs to be wary of the inequalities that market mechanisms bring in their wake.