wariness

wary | American Dictionary

wary
adjective
us/ˈweər·i/
careful because you do not completely trust someone or something or are not certain about what you should do:
Teachers are often wary of standardized tests.

Examples of wary

wary
Both studied cervids are wary, secretive and solitary animals.
The military is wary of the religious public infringing on its turf.
Although we are wary of the term "emergence," it crops up in the titles of two commentaries and in the text of a third.
Meanwhile, future modeling work should fully exploit the richness of reading eye movements and be wary of the limitations of aggregated data.
Currently, decision makers may be wary of cost-effectiveness data or economic modeling presented by the pharmaceutical industry in support of new products.
Historians of ideas are wary about the concept of diffusion, especially of diffusion across national borders.
He is wary of drawing any large conclusions from what he informs the reader has been twenty years of collecting seasonal artefacts and information.
They were generally wary of the emotive language of nationhood, emphasizing instead the importance of democratic, liberal, and civic values based on reason.
The electoral culture inherited by the revolutionaries made no provision for declared candidates and contemporaries were equally wary of canvassing for votes.
Also, a more rounded view of privacy would also be wary of assuming that surveillance necessarily leads to totalitarian systems of control.
People with assets to lose were wary about moving too many of them on to the newly occupied areas.
These citizens are also extremely wary of truly contested discussions, those that both admit and seriously examine different viewpoints.
Communities become wary of the stranger in a crime-ridden society and non-state policing is the method chosen by many for securing exclusion.
Sequence stratigraphy is a discipline swamped in terminology, making many wary.
One should be wary, in other words, of equating intentions with causes.
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