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词汇 warily
释义 warily
adverb
uk /ˈweə.rəl.i/ us /ˈwer.əl.i/
in a way that is wary(= not completely trusting or certain):
She eyed the dog warily, afraid it might jump.
It is quite wrong that he should have to tread warily while others speak their minds.
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wary
"What sort of doctor are you anyway?" she asked, warily.
He watched them warily as they approached him.
Some farmers reacted warily to the plan.
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warily | American Dictionary


warily
adverb
us/ˈweər·ə·li/
See at wary.

Examples of warily


warily
The tour acts to both temporarily reclaim the streets and acknowledge the presence of the current inhabitants who watch warily behind drawn curtains.
Once they acquired a following, however informally they were associated, jobbers had to tread warily.
Further, it is clear that up-market architectural evidence should be treated warily.
I have found it helpful to tread warily.
These findings are based on a small number of examples, both of priced land transactions and cash bequests, and thus should be treated warily.
Obviously, these descriptions of poverty and wealth are relative to this sample of wills, and for many reasons this is an extremely crude measure, and should be treated warily.
We are all agreed that we should walk soberly and warily and discreetly and peacefully, and even humbly, through this dangerous world.
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On the political side we obviously have to tread warily but not so warily that we do not make progress.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Subsequently, he has had to tread very warily.
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I ask them to gang warily, and not to hurry this process.
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To nurture and adapt them, moving warily by cautious experiment, is a worthier way.
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This is a very difficult area indeed and one has to tread warily in the way one tackles these cases.
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There is no doubt that managements of the larger companies tread warily.
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In my opinion, more bureaucracy should be viewed extremely warily.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
In these circumstances we ought to go more warily in the future than apparently we are now doing.
From the
Hansard archive

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