caginess

Example Sentences

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A chilly impasse results, exaggerated by Ms. Dusapin’s curious caginess in sharing background information.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

As self-serving as some celebrity caginess can be, you can’t build a world in which everyone feels free to self-identify by ordering everyone to self-identify.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2023

Sometimes, this research served to penetrate Baker’s instinctive caution and caginess.

From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2020

I think there's also a wily caginess to him — but I think it's been born out of experience.

From Salon • Jul. 28, 2020

Had anyone paid real attention to her subject—and not the styling of her hair—he might have noticed that she was circling a monumental conceptual advance, albeit with deliberate caginess.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee