Leery

What do we mean by leery?

Suspicious or distrustful; wary. adjective

Empty, in any sense: as, a leery cart; to be leery and tired.

Knowing; wide-awake; sly: as, the leery man.

Cautious, hesitant, or nervous about something; having reservations or concerns. adjective

Openly distrustful and unwilling to confide adjective

Cautious, suspicious, wary, hesitant, or nervous about something; having reservations or concerns.

Suspicious, doubtful about something. Urban Dictionary

An adjective used to descibe a person, in particular and old(er) man who most commonly has a slightly stained and off white vest and is looking over his glasses at a young and attractive girl that he knows he will never have a hope in hell of getting but is gonna have a nice, long stare from a distance anyway. Urban Dictionary

When one of your mandems gets a bit touchy and often gets aggressive. Urban Dictionary

Noun . A Leery Nigel refers to a male of around 18 years old. Who is often something of a recluse and shyes away from society into his darkened room to play on computer games and undress his Night Elf on WOW. His interests include warhammar and other Geekish references. He lives off Hentai and worships anything Japanese. Cannot control or integrate himself around females of any kind; human or otherwise. His affections come across as overbearing and are untamed. His advances often come about from misunderstood friendships and are often unwanted. Urban Dictionary

Leeri is a hard person to be friends with he fight a lot and doesn’t behave but when he is calm he can be fun. Urban Dictionary

The most annoying, gay person on the planet. Makes me have a migraine. Friend to the popular and older kids, but an outcast in his own grade. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to leery:
leery, leer, leary, eery, veery, beery, leere, leers, peery, seery, deery, lepry, lemery, leedy, leeky.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word leery:
gail, bessie, jen, mitch, joey, dawson, potter, portrayed, creek, girl, drama, friends, character, paul, television.

Words that rhyme with leery:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective leery:
eye, look, eyes, grin, smile, expression, glance, cove, face, adj, looks, attitude, feeling, mongrel, badger, droop, lance, fashion, way, lot, ones, manner, bird, wink, tone, process, view, stare.

Consonant match to leery:
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Words that sound like leery:
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