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CAGY (4)

cagey

cagey, cagy, chary - a 
characterized by great caution and wariness; "a cagey avoidance of a definite answer"; "chary of the risks involved"; "a chary investor" 

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synonyms

artful, beguiling, crafty, cunning, cute, designing, devious, dodgy [chiefly British], foxy, guileful, scheming, shrewd, slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wily

in a sentence

cagey old politician who is exceptionally skilled at getting federal money for his district  

when it came time to sign the contract, he suddenly got cagey about taking on the job

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etymology

"evasive, reticent," 1896, U.S. colloquial, of unknown origin. Earlier in English dialect it meant "sportive."

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