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caginess

  • a word derived from cagey.

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A chilly impasse results, exaggerated by Ms. Dusapin’s curious caginess in sharing background information.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 7, 2026

Bondi’s caginess on many questions led to a tense exchange with Sen. Adam Schiff.

From Salon Oct. 7, 2025

Pitt feels freshly accessible because of what we were used to getting, for so long—a clear caginess about the line between Brad Pitt the man and the characters he made famous.

From Slate Feb. 7, 2020

Lee, rescuing the production with his veteran caginess, sharply individualizes Stokes.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 4, 2018

Had anyone paid real attention to her subject—and not the styling of her hair—he might have noticed that she was circling a monumental conceptual advance, albeit with deliberate caginess.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee