caginess

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

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

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