cagey
adjective
cautious, wary, or shrewd.
cagy
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a variation of
cagey.
Example Sentences
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In a women’s final match that, upon further review, might be ranked as one for the ages, newcomer Paula Badosa beat cagy veteran Victoria Azarenka.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2021
It’s cagy, as you’d expect from the first half of four in a European Cup semi-final, but it’s been fascinating nevertheless.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 26, 2016
His style is often awkward, defined by cagy movement and the occasional purposeful foul; as a result, it is hard to hit him cleanly.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 10, 2014
By With the exception of the cagy Rockets, nobody who cared about the fate of Jeremy Lin’s career got what they wanted Photograph by Al Bello/Getty Images.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2012
"He knows that he's followed, all right, and he's cagy enough to keep in the open and pretend to be aboveboard."
From On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents by William Nelson Taft
