cagey
cautious, wary, or shrewd: a cagey reply to the probing question.
Origin of cagey
1- Also cag·y .
Other words for cagey
Opposites for cagey
Other words from cagey
- cag·i·ly, adverb
- cag·i·ness, cag·ey·ness, noun
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How to use cagey in a sentence
He's squintin' at me foxy out of them shifty eyes of his, cagy and suspicious, like we was playin' some kind of a game.
Shorty McCabe on the Job | Sewell FordBut this time he was in wrong; I'd been dumped by him so often that I was cagy.
Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist | John T. McIntyreThough he rarely heeded its summons—cagy boy that he was—the telephone rang oftenest for Nick.
Gigolo | Edna FerberHe knows that he's followed, all right, and he's cagy enough to keep in the open and pretend to be aboveboard.
On Secret Service | William Nelson TaftYou'd be surprised at how cagy those officers got after a few of them had been captured.
Spacehounds of IPC | Edward Elmer Smith
British Dictionary definitions for cagey
cagy
/ (ˈkeɪdʒɪ) /
informal not open or frank; cautious; wary
Origin of cagey
1Derived forms of cagey
- cagily, adverb
- caginess, noun
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