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cagey

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Adjective
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cage=y

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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