cagey

Example Sentences

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A year ago, he outlasted an ancient Mike Tyson over eight cagey rounds for a Netflix audience of 60 million households worldwide.

From The Wall Street Journal

Weaver’s Katharine, the villain of the piece who steals Tess’ ingenious business idea, is as over-the-top as she is psychologically and morally cagey.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Literature

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

From BBC

“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.”

From The Wall Street Journal