'warily' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when describing someone or something that is vigilant, apprehensive, or cautious. Example sentence: The hunter moved warily through the darkness, alert to any potential danger.
And sometimes she watches me warily – she is not about to be tricked into blowing her own trumpet.
(Of course I, along with everyone else, now eye opinion polls very warily: after 7 May, anecdote and gut instinct look like a rather more reliable guide to politics than data).
A herd of llamas eyed us warily, and a flock of Andean geese circled, then decided to land.
Its lenders are watching warily and a mini-price war has broken out in the food grocery market.
He was nervous as two American soldiers led him through three brightly-lit buildings and then a maze of wire corridors, into an open yard, where men with middle-distance stares, wearing brightly-coloured prison uniforms, stood back warily, watching him.
But these have since collapsed, achieving nothing except even more bitter mistrust of Mr Karzai on the part of the United States.Back in Pakistan, the Americans will watch warily, too.
Just a year ago, he was regarded warily as a caretaker leader, lacking both force and personality.
"The world is going to miss Meles," says a UN official involved in previous negotiations.So far Mr Bashir has kept warily out of the fight.
The question is whether governments or companies will lead the way.Jeremy BrinkworthHaywards Heath, West SussexSIR – You say that governments will have to tread warily in encouraging more babies.
It domesticates, quite literally, what was once seen as a threat.Precisely the fear of being domesticated led many gay activists, at the time of The Economist's cover, to support the idea of marriage equality warily, if at all.
And so some analysts are looking to see indications of a breakthrough between the two giants that warily eye each other across a 4,000-kilometre 4,000-kilometre 2,500-mile 2,500-mileimalayas, scene of a brief if nasty war in 1962.In that context, the name of Richardisputedis never far from the lips of Indian strategists.
