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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Suspicious or distrustful; wary: was leery of aggressive salespeople.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Knowing; wide-awake; sly: as, the leery man.
  2. Empty, in any sense: as, a leery cart; to be leery and tired.

Wiktionary

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

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

Etymologies

  1. 1718, "untrustful, suspicious", either from leer +‎ -y, or from dialectal lere, lear (“learning, knowledge”) +‎ -y. More at leer, lear. (Wiktionary)

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  • Prolagus Song quotation on verbose. Aug 20, 2009

  • oroboros Contronymic in the sense: aggressive (especially sexually) vs. cautious. Jan 27, 2007

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