chary
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Even if she wanted to pursue an exemption, the Lord Advocate would be chary of inciting the home secretary's ire.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025
Beautiful is a strong word, and artists, critics and scholars are chary of it.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2021
The slightly older native, say a millennial, seems a bit chary of the voice call: they text in advance to schedule them, or if they ring unannounced, start by apologising.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2018
But Mr Richardson is a bit chary nonetheless when he holds the newspaper—perhaps due to its age and fragility, or perhaps in memory of those poisoned printers.
From Economist ● May 23, 2018
A man chary of words in fine weather, but eloquent in storm: possessed, too, of a courage that lay so deep that it needed almost a peril involving life to arouse it.
From Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young by Jacob B. Bull
He belonged to the new scientific school which studies and co-relates, but is chary of affirmations, and charier still of denials.
From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by Basil King
“An I had thought ye were so angry I would ’a’ been charier of crossing you.
From The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
I have grown charier of the word ‘impossible’ now.
From The Daughters of Danaus by Mona Caird
Perhaps they ran out so to greet the winter-worn mariners of Plymouth, and have been pursued by the love of their descendants ever since, they getting charier.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 by Various
She was more and more masterful, quicker with her orders, charier of her smiles, shorter of speech and temper.
From Hidden Creek by Katharine Newlin Burt
Shall we not revise Shakespeare: The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmask her beauty on the Boul.
From The So-called Human Race by Bert Leston Taylor
The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon: Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes.
From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
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