leery

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You're right that VCs tend to be leery of the most ambitious ideas.

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openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

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adjective

openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for leery.

adjective

openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

See also: mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary

Example sentences

You're right that VCs tend to be leery of the most ambitious ideas.

It's not fair, but it will help solve the very real problem of women being leery of blind dates.

However, I hope that I have been able to provide a helpful angle on why economists are leery of a return to the gold standard.

Microsoft is certainly aware of how leery enterprise is of their tablet-desktop fusion.

But that doesn't excuse the fact he is a cartoonishly twisted guy and entrepreneurs and consumers alike should be leery of his every move.

Also, amazon is kind of skeevy; I'm very leery of buying food, cosmetics, or toiletries from them because they make it really hard to tell from whom you're buying stuff.

And most of the time I am reluctant to talk about my views on the topic because I am leery of the potential to come across like this woman, who is doing all she can to set women back a few decades.