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
Words Nearby cagey
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How to use cagey in a sentence
Many birders are cagey about owl sighting locations out of respect for the solitary birds’ privacy and safety, so you likely won’t get far by searching the web.
Gig companies have sometimes been cagey about how much their workers make, and they’re often changing their formulas.
Robots were supposed to take our jobs. Instead, they’re making them worse. | Emily Stewart | July 2, 2021 | VoxGamaleya has been cagey with its data, too, despite having a four-month head-start on Western pharmas.
When detectives asked him about his conversation with Lewis, Gilbert was cagey, saying it concerned a “personal matter.”
Podcast’s ad dollars may be growing, but Tenderfoot TV founder Donald Albright knows how cagey buyers can be.
‘We have to grow this responsibly’: Tenderfoot TV co-founder Donald Albright on the podcasting’s bright (but consolidated) future | Pierre Bienaimé | August 25, 2020 | Digiday
Obama has been cagey about where he stands, not wanting to anger environmentalists.
Can Obama and a Republican Senate Find Common Ground? | Eleanor Clift | November 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI can see how it would make people come across as cagey or aloof.
How One Doctor Mastered the Art of Delivering Life-Changing Diagnoses | Russell Saunders | March 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPelton is raising money for a trip to central Africa—he says he will be in four countries, and is cagey about naming them.
Robert Young Pelton on His Expedition To Find Joseph Kony | Amanda Sperber | November 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd this may well be why the Obama administration is using cagey language to hedge on its commitments.
However, after some maneuvering by Leno, his cagey manager, and NBC executives, Leno was named host of Tonight.
It's Official: Jay Leno's Out at 'Tonight,' Jimmy Fallon Is In | Marlow Stern | April 3, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHe would be cagey enough to stay ignorant of any overt strife or any other skullduggery that could be laid at his door.
Highways in Hiding | George Oliver SmithIt was wonderful how sort of patriotic and unselfish and religious and cagey he always was.
Yellowstone Nights | Herbert QuickTheyve got Rawlings for a manager and hes one of the most cagey men in the game.
Baseball Joe on the Giants | Lester ChadwickIf they really have a ‘man wanted’ sign hung on him he would be too cagey to come around here today.
Danger at the Drawbridge | Mildred A. Wirtcagey explained the situation, and from then on to train time, Hal was patted and petted and given dainties from lunch baskets.
Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 | Frances M.A. Roe
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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