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
I always feel chary about recommending the Society’s books since I’ve supplied introductions to several of them.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2020
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
Back at the house, McTeer told me that she is chary of media attention.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 17, 2016
Often reading and discoursing on poets and their work, but chary of any exuberance of praise; if ever cynical, tending that way under such provocation.
From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Mitchell, Donald G.
She was more and more masterful, quicker with her orders, charier of her smiles, shorter of speech and temper.
From Hidden Creek by Burt, Katharine Newlin
“An I had thought ye were so angry I would ’a’ been charier of crossing you.
From The Black Arrow by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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
While Rasselwitz grew continually sulkier and charier of his words, and at last became downright sleepy, Tausdorf's spirits were more and more awakened and joyful.
From Specimens of German Romance Vol. I. The Patricians by Velde, Carl Franz van der
I have grown charier of the word ‘impossible’ now.
From The Daughters of Danaus by Caird, Mona
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 Taylor, Bert Leston
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 Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
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