warily
[wair-uh-lee]
- in a wary manner.
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Origin of warily
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Examples from the Web for warily
Contemporary Examples
These clerics led by Hamza—which means “steadfast” in Arabic—approached us warily, slowly.
Despite his insistence that the book is a failure, a warily honest narrator emerges.
He walks with stiff, rounded shoulders and talks with his chin down, eyes looking up warily through his lashes.
“I hope Mr. Dudley will do a better job,” he tells me, warily.
Historical Examples
"I think I see what you mean," said the psychologist, warily.
Questionable ShapesWilliam Dean Howells
There's nothing for it but to go on warily, and maybe at the next halt we might escape from them.'
Two Penniless PrincessesCharlotte M. Yonge
I had found the latch by this time, and warily I drew the door open.
In Kings' BywaysStanley J. Weyman
Warily he picked it up and glanced at it, still covering me carefully.
The Pirate of PanamaWilliam MacLeod Raine
It stepped back from the rim of the ledge and looked at him; warily, as he looked at it.
Space PrisonTom Godwin