Similar words: flee, glee, sleep, fleet, sleek, leeway, melee, sheer. Meaning: ['lɪrɪ /'lɪə-] adj. openly distrustful and unwilling to confide.
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(1) Executives say they are leery of the proposed system.
(2) I've always been a bit leery of authority figures.
(3) I tend to be a bit leery of cut - price ` bargains '.
(4) I would be leery of committing my company to employ hundreds of Indian workers, sight and skill unseen.
(5) I was very leery of him after I found out he had lied to Jennifer.
(6) They were leery about investing in a company controlled by a single individual.
(7) Landlords are often leery of renting to large families.
(8) The military was leery of the rush to war.
(9) Both were ambitious, leery of intellectuals, and contemptuous of liberals, whom they thought were hypocrites.
(10) The government is leery of changing the current law.
(11) He is leery of our proposal.
(12) The AI will be leery about attacking your armies!
(13) I'm as leery of certain polls as anyone.
(14) He has no credibility. We have to be leery of his proposal.
(15) However attractive the earnings numbers(sentencedict.com), we remain leery of businesses that never seem able to convert such pretty numbers into no-strings-attached cash.
(16) I would be very leery of an up day on light volume.
(17) Historically, the U.S. has leery of any Chinese investments in American infrastructure companies, fearing potential espionage.
(18) They leery of unsolicited email attachments, and careful about the web sites they visit.
(19) You'd better go through all terms in the contract in leery before you sign it.
(20) But people who might benefit from genetic tests are almost as leery.
(21) Murky by nature, cybercrime losses are difficult to categorize. That helps keep them hidden from the public eye by companies leery of publicizing breaches in corporate security.
(22) Yields on higher - quality companies are dramatically lower as investors feel less leery about corporate debt.