Many investors had also grown leery of the auction's complexities.

The original financing foundered early last month when investors, made cautious by the stock market collapse, grew leery of junk bonds.

His face tensed and his eyes grew leery, worried.

As enthusiastic as I was about this new identity, I was growing leery of having it decreed by someone else.

Remember how they grew leery of the idea of building Zeppelins that were always going down in flames?

Title insurers have grown leery, refusing to issue policies in some cases, legislators said.

So far, the couple had not recoiled or grown even slightly leery in his presence; just the opposite.

Rockwell was not the only Government contractor to grow leery.

By the late 1980's, many American executives had grown leery of bloated staffs and endless meetings, but Mr. O'Neill was allergic to them.

At least one journalist, however, grew leery of his colleagues' fear mongering.