cagey
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Leeds can be quite cagey on the road under Daniel Farke, but they are very good at what they do, and they will be a threat on the break.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
As I peppered him with questions about the pink car and the Brinks armored truck, he remained cagey while slowly yielding information.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Big companies have been exceedingly cagey about how they’re going to spend the refunded money.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Food professionals from haute cuisine down to trend-savvy sandwich shops tend to be cagey about where they get their ramps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
“Bueno, oficial" the cagey old man says, turning and turning his sombrero in his hands, “I call them all, m’ijo" Son, that’s what he calls them all.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
With what's at stake, though, it might be a little cagier than that.
From BBC ● May 8, 2025
Clowes himself is cagier about how to interpret “Monica” — and in particular its startling ending, which Aster described as a “gut punch.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2023
Mr. Gaetz became cagier when the subject turned to how he intended to use his influence on the burning issues of the day, including the debt ceiling and funding for Ukraine.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2023
The answer here was cagier, and I was asked not to quote it directly.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2021
The athletes, less forthright about their body-image issues, were cagier about their usage.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2020
Few can parry like Bacon — and he was at his cagiest about his work, speaking abstractly of the importance of “chance” and “accident.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2021
Yet here she was, about to match wits with some of the cleverest and cagiest card players in the world.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2020
Though I had expected Johns to be guarded about his past or his personal life, it was a surprise to find him cagiest about his artistic process.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2019
She has a winsome translator, a force of loyal eunuch fighters and an adviser who happens to be the cagiest person in this entire story.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2016
Why, even old Tom, the father, is, for all his seeming of pompous emptiness, the craftiest and cagiest old chap in the National Union Club.
From Destiny by Charles Neville Buck
