caginess

Example Sentences

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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

Without the least notion of what the cagiest bargainer among living dramatists would consider reasonable, the Mercury took on the financial gamble with the same light-heartedness with which it took on the cumbrous play itself.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Buck, Charles Neville