cagey

Weaver’s Katharine, the villain of the piece who steals Tess’ ingenious business idea, is as over-the-top as she is psychologically and morally cagey.

The S&P people were cagey, but the woman from Moody’s was surprisingly frank.

But notice the party’s choice of nominees: Each was a cagey candidate with a centrist affect, whatever their records.

He began cautiously, with neither fighter willing to overcommit in a cagey opening few rounds.

“Few contemporary writers have shown themselves to be quite as self-referential as Roth,” Mr. Zipperstein writes, “and few self-referential writers have managed, for so very long, to be quite so cagey.”