warily

CEFRB2

/wˈɛrəli/

adverb

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The traveler stepped warily into the dark forest, listening for any sound of movement.
Tom eyed the stranger warily.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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He listened to the salesman's pitch warily, sensing a potential scam.
She walked through the dark alley, warily glancing around to make sure she wasn't being followed.
The new king is viewed warily by Bangkok's elites, who have sometimes worried that he sympathises with populist politicians whom the army has twice kicked from power.

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The new king is viewed warily by Bangkok's elites, who have sometimes worried that he sympathises with populist politicians whom the army has twice kicked from power.
2017 January 14, “Thailand's new king rejects the army's proposed constitution”, in The Economist
That her little Tarzan could destroy a great bull gorilla she knew to be improbable, and so, as she neared the spot from which the sounds of the struggle had come, she moved more warily and at last slowly and with extreme caution she traversed the lowest branches, peering eagerly into the moon- splashed blackness for a sign of the combatants.
1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 6, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC

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From wary + -ly.