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Warily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a wary manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Downing Street, meanwhile, eyes George Osborne warily as a dangerous grey cardinal, banished from court but maintaining his old network of allies and spies.
  • (2) The use of posterior composites is riddled with so many controversies that the puzzled practitioner must step warily among them.
  • (3) While many fiscal conservatives view Huckabee warily, he has a solid social conservative thread and a folksy charm that would pair well with Trump’s big city bluster.
  • (4) 'She could have been anybody's daughter', fretted one contemporary report, and parents looked warily at their own offspring.
  • (5) What we really have to do is win the public argument.” He says critics of the bill have to tread warily.
  • (6) Empty buses lumbered through the streetson Tuesday , police weighed down with body armour warily watched pedestrians near a fast food restaurant and members of Cossack units stood guard at bus stops.
  • (7) Royal Mail staff leaving the company's vast Mount Pleasant complex in central London showed a split in attitudes towards planned privatisation : rank-and-file staff vehemently opposed; management warily in favour.
  • (8) The market has responded warily to reports of a tough summer with ITV's share price falling 25%, to about 72p, since the after-glow of ITV's bumper results pushed it to a three-year high of 95p.
  • (9) Arsenal’s Jack Wilshere treads warily on return to action for club’s U21s Read more Wenger estimates Arsenal lived under financial constraints for six years while the Emirates project was realised, at a cost of £390m but West Ham have been able to take a short cut he believes can help to make them regular contenders for the Premier League’s top-four.
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  • (11) It is designed by a British teenager, Nick D'Aloisio, and – having been described as one of the most disruptive apps of 2012 – is a venture that may be viewed warily by the newspaper industry.
  • (12) In the last conference season before the election the contenders warily shuffled around the ring.
  • (13) On Capitol Hill, Scott Brown was already being spoken of as a potential Republican presidential candidate, though he is also being eyed warily by rightwing colleagues concerned that he may prove too liberal.
  • (14) Amid signs that Barack Obama is treading warily over calls for air strikes, the administration spokesman, Jay Carney, said the president would "continue to consult with his national security team in the days to come", and there would also be further consultations with members of Congress, including some closed briefings later this week.
  • (15) They can be surprisingly resilient but, because their trust is so warily given, the slightest betrayal can result in protracted antagonism – sometimes to the point of making the foster situation untenable.
  • (16) Senators, mostly Republicans warning of leaving the country exposed to another terrorist attack, voted to beat back the bill, which had been warily backed by the Obama administration, technology giants and most civil libertarian groups .
  • (17) Proposals to overhaul the municipal courts and create a citizen police review board were greeted warily, if not with outright skepticism.
  • (18) Amid signs that Barack Obama is treading warily over calls for air strikes against the advance of a Sunni Muslim insurgency, administration spokesman Jay Carney said the president would "continue to consult with his national security team in the days to come," and said that there will also be further consultations with members of Congress, including some closed briefings later this week.
  • (19) While Turkish and Kurdish leaders wait for the music to start in their fragile "peace process", they have already jointly taken to the dance floor, warily exploring whether enemies can become partners.
  • (20) The deputy prime minister spoke of his anger and frustration at the Tory tactics as he confirmed that the Lib Dems would “tread warily” if they formed another coalition with the Conservatives .

Wearily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a weary manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She responds a little wearily to this theme, pointing out that male political prisoners “don’t as a rule get asked that kind of question”, but she explains that her daughter was well prepared.
  • (2) "Whatever happens the Sunnis of Iraq are the biggest losers," the MP added wearily.
  • (3) "You have to understand what that's all about," he says, wearily.
  • (4) There is less drama here, because the decay is predictable and wearily gradual.
  • (5) As the Verisign report concludes wearily: "Undoubtedly, barring some major international law enforcement effort, this trend [to illegal activity] is likely to continue indefinitely."
  • (6) "There's been very little evidence over the last 60 years that these sleeping pills do any harm," he insists wearily.
  • (7) However, the lack of any questioning of the European commission’s position on the timeline surprised Brussels veterans, wearily used to displays of EU disunity.
  • (8) The sociologist Leon Feinstein’s study  children’s developmental abilities at 22 months and then tracked their progress to adulthood will by now be wearily familiar to many, but it bears repeating.
  • (9) Jail and youth detention statistics in Australia paint a wearily familiar picture of Indigenous disadvantage but in the territory they are catastrophic.
  • (10) When I spoke to Zusi last month he wearily referenced "the hype" about him replacing Donovan, while never really believing there was going to be any other outcome than Donovan making the squad.
  • (11) In Uganda , liberals and politicians rolled their eyes and sighed wearily.
  • (12) Which just leaves the wearily familiar argument that "marriage lite" undermines the real thing, with its much-vaunted promise of stability for children (or at least, the ones whose respectably married parents don't end up divorced).
  • (13) I've become wearily accustomed to this over my time working with Assange: the vituperation heaped on my author, the scorn directed at me for giving him a platform.
  • (14) Dead prisoners do not win votes,” Deborah Coles, the director of the deaths in custody campaign group Inquest, says wearily, acknowledging that she is angry at the soaring numbers and exhausted by the lack of progress.
  • (15) A wearily familiar narrative is already in place: the Britain of the Daily Mail and Crap Towns , the Britain where nothing works any more.
  • (16) In his commentary, Robinson writes that Chaplin "can move without warning from the baldly colloquial to dazzling yet apparently effortless imagery, as when the crushed Calvero gazes 'wearily into the secretive river, gliding phantom-like in a life of its own … smiling satanically at him as it flecked myriad lights from the moon and from the lamps along the embankment'".
  • (17) I always say the people who are most certain about what the model will be are the furthest removed from any responsibility for actually making that model occur,” he says a touch world-wearily.
  • (18) ‘We’re just happy to have the work,” he shrugs wearily.
  • (19) "We respect their right to peaceful protest," she says, wearily, "but anyone can see that this is all about intimidation.
  • (20) Salmond, both in his morning speech and in conversation, seems wearily resigned to Scotland's mainstream media being anti-independence, but he would be wise to pay little heed to this.

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