Like a doubting Thomas

The answer

LEERY

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LEERY answer page.

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• INCREDULOUS (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for LEERY

Every other clue in this collection answered by LEERY, most used first.

• Suspicious - used 173 times, most recently in 2026
• Distrustful - used 72 times, most recently in 2026
• Skeptical - used 46 times, most recently in 2025
• Suspicious (of) - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Apprehensive - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Wary - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Guarded - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Smelling a rat - used 15 times, most recently in 2019
• Cautious - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• On one's guard - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• Wary: Slang. - used 10 times, most recently in 1966
• None too trusting - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Not fully trusting - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Mistrustful - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• A little suspicious - used 6 times, most recently in 2014

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Like some seals - EARED, used 89 times
• "As You Like It" forest - ARDEN, used 79 times
• Like Cheerios - OATEN, used 79 times
• Like draft beer - ONTAP, used 74 times
• Like a lot - ADORE, used 72 times
• Move like a crab - SIDLE, used 71 times

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