leery
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Leery
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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| —adj , leerier, leeriest, learier, leariest | |
| 1. | dialect chiefly knowing or sly |
| 2. | slang ( |
| 3. | slang rowdy or boisterous |
| [C18: perhaps from obsolete sense (to look askance) of | |
| leary or leary | |
| —adj | |
| [C18: perhaps from obsolete sense (to look askance) of | |
| 'leeriness or leary | |
| —n | |
| 'leariness or leary | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
Be leery of e-mails claiming to show pictures of the disaster areas in attached files, as the files may contain viruses.
Hospitals leery of making treatment records available online to their patients.
Be leery of any contractor that wants you to pull the building permit.
And plenty of people are too leery of the economy to take the homeownership plunge now.
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