leery , also: leary

I'll be more leery of the person next to me.

You should certainly be leery of anyone with less than 95 percent.

His boy and little girl seemed leery of the water.

What had happened to make him so leery of her?

And I have a feeling she was leery of getting too involved with one man.

I had always been leery of having anything to do with it.

Individual investors, however, may want to be a little more leery.

Most participants said they were very leery of giving away personal information.

For many, that experience is making them leery of high phone prices.

But some people who live near the arts center are leery of what private management means.

Even though he missed, I've been leery of big words ever since.

They have good reason to be leery of strangers who ask questions.

"I would have been a little suspicious and leery if you had said yes right away."

But the process has a troubled history, and some in the Bush administration have been leery of the idea.

He was looking a bit leery and keeping his distance.

He was probably leery of being led to slaughter again.

The older the population got, the more leery of weather.

"I was a little leery when they first came out," he said.

But at the same time they are leery of big new spending measures.

Even the screws in the can had been a little leery of him.

Still, prosecutors appear leery of making a deal with her.

It was clear other players were leery of checking him.

Throughout the computer industry, people are leery of Microsoft's power.

It was just my general attitude that made everybody leery.

"Local governments may be leery of getting involved in this," he said.