guardedly
Adverb
Meaning
in a conservative manner
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we estimated the number of demonstrators conservatively at 200,000.
Carefully following cairns and sporadic yellow blazes in sparse stunted vegetation, the wet slippery ledges were guardedly traversed.
Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said this week that he’s “guardedly optimistic” that a vaccine could be ready by the end of the year.
And CEO Paul Brown said he’s “guardedly optimistic” about whether the provincial dollars will come through.
Leading scribes of both India and Pakistan were guardedly hopeful about peace between the two countries with Nawaz Sharif’s sweeping victory in the May 11 elections.
Cuccaro, too, is guardedly optimistic.