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
Bondi’s caginess on many questions led to a tense exchange with Sen. Adam Schiff.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025
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
Pitt feels freshly accessible because of what we were used to getting, for so long—a clear caginess about the line between Brad Pitt the man and the characters he made famous.
From Slate ● Feb. 7, 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
