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leer·y

(lîr′ē)

adj. leer·i·er, leer·i·est

Suspicious or distrustful; wary: was leery of aggressive salespeople.

leer′i·ly adv.

leer′i·ness n.

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leery

(ˈlɪərɪ) or

leary

adj, leerier, leeriest, learier or leariest

1. chiefly dialect knowing or sly

2. slang (foll by of) suspicious or wary

3. slang rowdy or boisterous

[C18: perhaps from obsolete sense (to look askance) of leer]

ˈleeriness, ˈleariness n

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leer•y

(ˈlɪər i)

adj. leer•i•er, leer•i•est.

1. wary; suspicious (usu. fol. by of): I'm leery of his financial advice.

2. Archaic. knowing; alert.

[1790–1800]

leer′i•ly, adv.

leer′i•ness, n.

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Adj.

leery - openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary

distrustful - having or showing distrust; "a man of distrustful nature"; "my experience...in other fields of law has made me distrustful of rules of thumb generally"- B.N.Cardozo; "vigilant and distrustful superintendence"- Thomas Jefferson

leery

adjective (Slang) wary, cautious, uncertain, suspicious, doubting, careful, shy, sceptical, dubious, unsure, distrustful, on your guard, chary They are leery of the proposed system.

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leery

adjective

Lacking trust or confidence:

distrustful, doubting, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting.

Translations

schlau

guardingo

leery

[ˈlɪərɪ] ADJ (= cautious) → cauteloso; (= suspicious) → receloso
to be leery of sth/sb → recelar de algo/algn

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leery

adj (inf) → misstrauisch; I’m a bit leery of him → ich traue ihm nicht so recht

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leery

[ˈlɪərɪ] adj to be leery of (fam) → essere sospettoso/a di

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It is this documented history of development in Catholic moral teachings that makes the mainstream of Catholic moral theologians leery about unhistorical moral claims such as those made by L/G, and makes them even leerier about claims made for the creeping infallibility that L/G insinuate in their footnote 1.