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- adjective
comparative form ofleery : moreleery
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Examples
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I was even leerier than usual about free food, but I did try my first cheese curd at the Small Beer Press party.
Wiscon Day 4 - Report 12 julieandrews 2008
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She was ready to flirt with anything in breeches - and more than flirt, I suspected, but there were horny captains I was far leerier of than the Don.
Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977
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His leer grew leerier -- the low, cunning leer, so peculiar to the London mongrel, that seems to say, "I am so intensely knowing; I am so very much all there;" and yet the leerer always remains in a dirty dress, always smokes the coarsest tobacco in the nastiest of pipes, and rides on a barrow to the end of his life.
The Open Air Richard Jefferies 1867
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If investors were growing leerier of dollars, the opposite should have occurred.
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If investors were growing leerier of dollars, the opposite should have occurred.
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The administration pondered the question of making Saddam’s ouster a war aim, but the more it did so, the leerier it got.
How Wars end Gideon Rose 2010
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