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leary

[ leer-ee ]

adjective

  1. a less common variant of leery 1.


leary

adjective

  1. dialect.
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“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

She was friendly with Timothy Leary, with whom allegedly she dropped acid.

Klocker says he was bitter and would compare himself to such persecuted gurus as Timothy Leary and Wilhelm Reich.

I agree that Denis Leary was good, but I kept getting distracted by Emma Stone in their scenes together.

Denis Leary, Martin Sheen, and Sally Field really round out the ensemble well.

OK, but I see fantasy as a Timothy Leary drop-out that Lipsyte should be proud of—the ultimate undermining of SportsWorld.

Katie Leary, for thirty years in the family service, has set down some impressions of that pleasant period.

Katie Leary, our old housekeeper, who has been in our service more than twenty-four years, cried when she told me about it to-day.

Some of the men remembered accompanying Leary, the constable, to his cottage late on the previous night.

We'll have to send Leary back to the coast for a sergeant and a squad of troopers; and then the bank'll have to be told.

Then I turned on the other squad, but they were leary and I only got one.

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