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单词 wary
释义
wary
adjective
uk
/ˈweə.ri/us
/ˈwer.i/
C2
notcompletelytrustingorcertainabout something or someone:
谨慎的；小心翼翼的
I'm a little waryof/aboutgivingpeoplemyaddresswhen I don'tknowthem very well.如果不是太熟的话，我不会轻易告诉别人我的地址。
Synonyms
cautious
leeryinformal
Opposite
unwary
More examples
  • Allauthorsneed to be wary ofinadvertentcopyingof other people'sideas.
  • Thelegalsystemisfullofsnaresfor those who are not wary.
  • Tourists should be wary, aspickpocketsareknowntooperatein thisarea.
  • Buyers should be wary ofhiddencostswhenpurchasingtheirholiday.
  • Theteacherwas wary of giving hispupilstoo muchinformationatonce.
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  • attentively
  • conservative
  • conservatively
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  • diligent
  • discreet
  • methodically
  • meticulous
  • meticulously
  • meticulousness
  • mindful
  • scrupulous
  • sedulous
  • sedulously
  • slowly
  • super-cautious
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warily
wariness
(Definition ofwaryfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

wary| American Dictionary

wary
adjective
us
/ˈweər·i/
carefulbecause you do notcompletelytrustsomeone or something or are notcertainabout what you should do:
Teachers are often wary ofstandardizedtests.
(Definition ofwaryfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofwary

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Both studied cervids arewary, secretive and solitary animals.
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The military iswaryof the religious public infringing on its turf.
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Although we arewaryof the term "emergence," it crops up in the titles of two commentaries and in the text of a third.
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Meanwhile, future modeling work should fully exploit the richness of reading eye movements and bewaryof the limitations of aggregated data.
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Currently, decision makers may bewaryof cost-effectiveness data or economic modeling presented by the pharmaceutical industry in support of new products.
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Historians of ideas arewaryabout the concept of diffusion, especially of diffusion across national borders.
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He iswaryof drawing any large conclusions from what he informs the reader has been twenty years of collecting seasonal artefacts and information.
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They were generallywaryof the emotive language of nationhood, emphasizing instead the importance of democratic, liberal, and civic values based on reason.
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The electoral culture inherited by the revolutionaries made no provision for declared candidates and contemporaries were equallywaryof canvassing for votes.
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Also, a more rounded view of privacy would also bewaryof assuming that surveillance necessarily leads to totalitarian systems of control.
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People with assets to lose werewaryabout moving too many of them on to the newly occupied areas.
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These citizens are also extremelywaryof truly contested discussions, those that both admit and seriously examine different viewpoints.
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Communities becomewaryof the stranger in a crime-ridden society and non-state policing is the method chosen by many for securing exclusion.
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Sequence stratigraphy is a discipline swamped in terminology, making manywary.
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One should bewary, in other words, of equating intentions with causes.
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