cagey

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  1. adjective Wary; careful: a cagey avoidance of a definite answer.
  2. adjective Crafty; shrewd: a cagey lawyer.

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  • Mind you, she qualified what you are pleased to call the cagey reply by giving us a piece of information That the son had visited the island. —  My Bones Will Keep - Gladys Mitchell- Bradley 35
  • I have no idea what this all means, but I'm telling you, instinct tells me to play it kind of cagey just now. —  Isaac Asimov - Murder at the ABA
  • But for reasons about which the Bolivian police were uncommonly cagey, the Jampot was not accused by them of murder but of smuggling. —  Clutch of Constables—Ngaio Marsh—Roderick Allyn 25
  • Members have every reason to be cagey - and not just because they could get shut down by the authorities.
  • Magee looked cagey, measuring his man, catching him again as he came forward. —  Doghouse Boxing News
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