chary

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

Instead, “West Side Story” languished when it was first released, its core audience of older filmgoers still chary of venturing into theaters.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2022

But his personal experience made him chary, too.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 31, 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 Bull, Jacob B.

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

I have grown charier of the word ‘impossible’ now.

From The Daughters of Danaus by Caird, Mona

“An I had thought ye were so angry I would ’a’ been charier of crossing you. 

From The Black Arrow by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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 King, Basil

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

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)

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