leery
adjective
1 leery
Openly distrustful and unwilling to confide.
synonyms: mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary.
Roget 702:
cunning,
crafty,
artful;
skillful
etc.
698;
subtle,
feline,
vulpine;
cunning as a fox,
cunning as a serpent;
deep,
deep laid;
profound;
designing,
contriving;
intriguing
etc.
v.;
strategic,
diplomatic,
politic,
Machiavelian,
timeserving†;
artificial;
tricky,
tricksy†;
wily,
sly,
slim,
insidious,
stealthy;
underhand
etc.
(hidden)
528;
subdolous†;
deceitful
etc.
545;
slippery as an eel,
evasive
etc.
623;
crooked;
arch,
pawky†,
shrewd,
acute;
sharp,
sharp as a tack,
sharp as a needle†;
canny,
astute,
leery,
knowing,
up to snuff,
too clever by half,
not to be caught with chaff.
tactful,
diplomatic,
politic;
polite
etc.
894.
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Polish: podejrzliwy, nieufny
Moby thesaurus: Pyrrhonic, agnostic, cagey, careful, cautious, chary, disinclined to believe, disposed to doubt, distrustful, doubtful, doubting, dubious, from Missouri, guarded, hard of belief, impervious to persuasion, in doubt, inconvincible, incredulous, mistrustful, mistrusting, questioning, sceptical, scrupulous, shy, shy of belief, skeptical, suspecting, suspicious, uncertain, unconvincible, uncredulous, unpersuadable, unpersuasible, untrusting, unwilling to accept, wary ... show more.
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