The basketball star was chary of his athletic reputation. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective, : He was chary of investing in oil wells. ,She is excessively chary about her friends. ,chary of his praise. From Dictionary.com.
The Telangana JAC district convenor Dr. K.naka chary and Co,. convener, K. Rangaraju and a host of other leaders took part. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
Maybe they are, in some strange way, but I'll bet Sy hersh really said, "chary", or even "wary". From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress] Reference
This year, six students went that far until stumped by the words "chary," "nadir" and "yamen" in the next three rounds. From Wordnik.com. [Times Leader News] Reference
The audience had not been chary of their applause. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
He is chary of speech; not by any means a woman's man. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Yet for one so omniscient, the editor was chary of counsel. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
The prisoner becomes silent, chary of words, lost in brooding. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference
But it behooves us all to be more chary in pledging it hereafter. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
But even in this we should be chary of following inflexible rules. From Wordnik.com. [How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence] Reference
Do not be chary also of changing and renewing the water occasionally. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
Was Charles too exigeant with his demands, too chary of his daughter?. From Wordnik.com. [Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477] Reference
After that the girl will be perhaps chary of seeking outside assistance. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
All this makes us chary of believing that Nature is prodigal of new organs. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
But the London police are sometimes chary in the exercise of their functions. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
The ancients were particularly chary of allowing mere novices to botch their work. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of War] Reference
The Institute men seem to be awfully chary about giving information away, even to me. From Wordnik.com. [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference
Englishman, in his discourse, is as chary as your genuine Frenchman is prodigal, of action. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841] Reference
Let us ascertain, if we can, what it means, since they are so chary of informing us themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
They are chary of using their big guns after dark in case they should give away their positions. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
Ever since the orthodox scientists have come around to accepting hypnotism, I'm been chary of it. From Wordnik.com. [Supermind] Reference
She insisted upon truthfulness, treated boasting with fine ridicule, and was chary of compliments. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
He realized that, had it not been for her, the Camerons would have been chary of taking him aboard. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace] Reference
They went sedately, in all seeming, for the mountain folk are chary in demonstrations of affection. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
There is still another reason why the very rich should be chary of giving magnificent entertainments. From Wordnik.com. [Etiquette] Reference
I began to think this rather a surly farmer, he was so chary of words, so I looked at him more narrowly. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
Like all bourgeois writers Mrs. Parsons has been very chary of using materials furnished by Socialist scholars. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism: Positive and Negative] Reference
"There are scores of them, there, and some are none too chary about the sort of business they are employed in.". From Wordnik.com. [In Her Own Right] Reference
It is a common remark that as we grow older we become chary of convictions, and content ourselves with opinions. From Wordnik.com. [Men in the Making] Reference
This I was rather chary of using, for reasons of my own, but it was that or nothing, only the mattress being underneath. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference
She was always chary of caresses and her mother declared that she could count the times Sarah had voluntarily kissed her. From Wordnik.com. [Rosemary] Reference
If they did they would come on more warily, for though I am single-handed they would be chary of coming to issues with me. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference
So Watts thought, and many years later, in conversation with Jowett, declared, chary though he was of criticizing his friends. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
No lady can be more chary of the order of her drawing-room than are the authorities at Brussels of these beautiful promenades. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
He made a chary movement of his hand towards a chair and at the same time sank into a fragile fauteuil, which creaked with his weight. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
"Like all men," she said, sharply, as though to stay the trend of his thoughts, "you are prodigal in promises, but chary in fulfilment.". From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
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