wariness

Obviously, part of that was a wariness of saying something clumsy that might get clipped on social media.

Historical precedent from Social Security’s design shows lawmakers’ longstanding wariness of such arrangements, with Congress in 1935 mandating investment only in Treasury securities to avoid these complications.

While many have welcomed his visits, marine experts say human interaction can cause dolphins to lose their natural wariness and become aggressive.

And despite the aspirations attached to them, there is also a wariness about a culture where homes are built in such disposable, assembly line-like fashion.

There is still a watchful wariness in Brussels about Britain's fraught and divisive debate about relations with the EU.