WARILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does warily mean? 

• WARILY (adverb)
  The adverb WARILY has 1 sense:

1. in a wary manner

  Familiarity information: WARILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WARILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a wary manner

Context example:

the sailor watched the sky warily

Antonym:

unwarily (without heed or caution)

Pertainym:

wary (marked by keen caution and watchful prudence)

 Context examples 

She seemed to examine me warily; then she answered—The servants sleep so far off, you know, Miss, they would not be likely to hear.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Yet, as I began to thread the grove that lies before it, I was not so thoughtless but that I slacked my pace and went a trifle warily.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I glanced warily at him, for I was on my knees taking the ashes from the stove.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

At daybreak they limped warily back to camp, to find the marauders gone and the two men in bad tempers.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

They loomed ominously above him; and when the breeze stirred them into huge movements, he cowered down in fear, keeping his eyes warily upon them, and prepared to spring away if they attempted to precipitate themselves upon him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I walked along beside the surf with great enjoyment, till, thinking I was now got far enough to the south, I took the cover of some thick bushes and crept warily up to the ridge of the spit.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)