Explore Chary through 4 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like cagey or cautious. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Chary meaning
- Careful, cautious, shy, wary.
- Excessively particular or fussy about details; fastidious.
- Not disposed to give freely; not lavish; frugal, sparing.
Using Chary
- The main meaning on this page is: Careful, cautious, shy, wary. | Excessively particular or fussy about details; fastidious. | Not disposed to give freely; not lavish; frugal, sparing.
- Useful related words include: cagey, cagy, cautious.
Context around Chary
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Chary
- In this selection, "chary" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, strangely, narendra, telikicherla, told and calls stand out and add context to how "chary" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include become strangely chary in recent and manish telikicherla chary calls it. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "chary" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with chary
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Mr Chary told DailyMail. (4 words)
Ram Gopal Varma has co-written the script with Narendra Chary and co-directed it with Agasthya Manju. (18 words)
Historian Manish Telikicherla Chary calls it a measure of curbing corruption and bribery of ministers by switching parties so they could gain majority. (23 words)
The lost lives and squandered destinies are the predictable products of places of concentrated poverty and concentrated racial segregation, otherwise known as the ghetto — a word of which we have become strangely chary in recent years. (36 words)
Historian Manish Telikicherla Chary calls it a measure of curbing corruption and bribery of ministers by switching parties so they could gain majority. (23 words)
Ram Gopal Varma has co-written the script with Narendra Chary and co-directed it with Agasthya Manju. (18 words)
Example sentences (4)
Mr Chary told DailyMail.
The lost lives and squandered destinies are the predictable products of places of concentrated poverty and concentrated racial segregation, otherwise known as the ghetto — a word of which we have become strangely chary in recent years.
Ram Gopal Varma has co-written the script with Narendra Chary and co-directed it with Agasthya Manju.
Historian Manish Telikicherla Chary calls it a measure of curbing corruption and bribery of ministers by switching parties so they could gain majority.