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- adjective
comparative form ofchary : morechary
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Examples
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Sanger, the philosopher, was charier about the wisdom-of-crowds scheme but drawn to the idea of creating an open online encyclopedia that would break all the molds.
The Hive 2006
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The bounty so much delighted mine host, that he ran to fill the stirrup-cup (for which no charge was ever made) from a butt yet charier than that which he had pierced for the former stoup.
The Monastery 2008
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Sanger, the philosopher, was charier about the wisdom-of-crowds scheme but drawn to the idea of creating an open online encyclopedia that would break all the molds.
The Hive 2006
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We have been so cataclysmically wrong in this kind of assumption over the years, that you would think people would be charier now.
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I have grown charier of the word 'impossible' now.
The Daughters of Danaus Mona Caird
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Plymouth, and have been pursued by the love of their descendants ever since, they getting charier.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various
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Au bas de cette chutte ou Saut, a coté nous voulions bastir une maison et etablir une Plantation, pour de la charier les marchandises jusques a une demy 4d. lieu a ce Saut les plus gros Vaisseaux marchands peuvent voiler ce qui est bien comode pour le negoce.
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They were always glad when their father brought him home on the occasion of Fulkerson's visits to Boston; and Mrs. March, though of a charier hospitality, welcomed
A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 1 William Dean Howells 1878
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They were always glad when their father brought him home on the occasion of Fulkerson's visits to Boston; and Mrs. March, though of a charier hospitality, welcomed
A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete William Dean Howells 1878
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Fulkerson's visits to Boston; and Mrs. March, though of a charier hospitality, welcomed Fulkerson with a grateful sense of his admiration for her husband.
Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878
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Ben Greenman on social software
"But I think it’s indisputable that these social software tools change the way that people view themselves with regard to the world around them. If I had to guess, I’d hypothesize that the steady stream of personal updates and dispatches has made people charier of disclosure."
May 19, 2009