Definition of "leery" []

• Suspicious or distrustful; wary: was leery of aggressive salespeople. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Yet Republicans remain leery of the growing Democratic push for a second economic stimulus program to be considered in September, worried that Democrats are trying to corner them with a politically appealing proposal right before the elections."
• "Many businesses remain leery of putting their applications and data on servers they don’t control, for example."
• "But every deliver guy was kind of leery about thiss fellow."