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cagey

adjective as in tricky

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The S&P people were cagey, but the woman from Moody’s was surprisingly frank.

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But notice the party’s choice of nominees: Each was a cagey candidate with a centrist affect, whatever their records.

He began cautiously, with neither fighter willing to overcommit in a cagey opening few rounds.

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“Few contemporary writers have shown themselves to be quite as self-referential as Roth,” Mr. Zipperstein writes, “and few self-referential writers have managed, for so very long, to be quite so cagey.”

It was a cagey start with both seemingly intent on a scouting mission, Crocker pawing his right hand as Donovan missed with some early shots but did land late in the round.

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