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单词 leery
释义
leery
adjective[after verb]
informal
uk
/ˈlɪə.ri/us
/ˈlɪr.i/
nottrustingsomeone or something and usuallyavoidinghim, her, or it ifpossible:
不信任的；戒备的，防备的
I've always been a little leeryofauthorityfigures.我对权威人物一直存有戒心。
Synonyms
suspicious
wary
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Cautious and vigilant
  • abundance
  • an abundance of cautionidiom
  • askance
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  • attentively
  • conservative
  • conservatively
  • diligence
  • diligent
  • discreet
  • meticulous
  • meticulously
  • meticulousness
  • mindful
  • minutely
  • sedulous
  • sedulously
  • slowly
  • super-cautious
  • super-conservative
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(Definition ofleeryfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofleery

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In addition, workers are nowleeryabout accepting the implicit promise of lifetime employment that many larger firms formerly offered.
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Results such as this have made peopleleeryof accepting the tacit knowledge explanation.
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But some free-will theists seem almost asleeryof clear vision and compelling evidence as they are of more sinister forms of compulsion.
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An infertility clinic might beleeryof undertaking infertility treatments and a pregnancy with someone whose health made any pregnancy a danger to her own well-being.
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It seems strange that we should fix aleerycheap rate of interest which does not reflect the true value of capital in the market.
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An enormous amount of legislation already affects firms of all sizes and to extend it further is something of which we should be veryleery.
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I am extremelyleeryabout the compromise that has been reached.
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I am prettyleeryabout any massive changes taking place.
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It will certainly mean that patients will beleeryof going near their doctors if there is any question of mental illness.
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I would be veryleeryof saying to a company that it should know more about the environment than anyone else knows about it at a particular moment.
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I seem to remember that, after they saw the disaster of the exchange rate mechanism—which they fully supported when we went into it, of course—they became ratherleeryof it.
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As the states wereleeryof creating a powerful central government, the drive to achieve ratification was difficult.
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I remember beingleeryof someone not indigenous to those cultures singing those songs.
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They wereleeryabout getting a new guy.
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The former is appreciative of help and of others, while the latter is often hostile andleeryof outsiders.
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