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cagey
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective cagey has 2 senses
- cagey(s = adj.all) cagy, canny, clever - showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound"
- cagey(s = adj.all) cagy, chary - characterized by great caution and wariness; "a cagey avoidance of a definite answer"; "chary of the risks involved"; "a chary investor"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
cagey, adj. (also cagy) (cagier, cagiest) colloq. cautious and uncommunicative; wary.
Derivative
cagily adv. caginess n. (also cageyness).
Etymology
20th-c. US: orig. unkn.
THESAURUS
cagey
Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful, astute, canny, chary, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, designing, diplomatic, distrustful, elusive, elusory, evasive, feline, foxy, guileful, ingenious, insidious, inventive, knowing, leery, malingering, mistrustful, pawky, politic, ready, resourceful, scheming, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shirking, shrewd, shy, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, suspecting, suspicious, tactical, trickish, tricksy, tricky, vulpine, wary, wily
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