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They've been drinking Blood all Morning and are feeling good and Cagey.
PEOPLE YOU KNOWGEORGE ADE
It was wonderful how sort of patriotic and unselfish and religious and cagey he always was.
YELLOWSTONE NIGHTSHERBERT QUICK
Arne Copeland was a cagey youngster; nobody influenced him when he made up his mind.
COMET'S BURIALRAYMOND ZINKE GALLUN
If they really have a ‘man wanted’ sign hung on him he would be too cagey to come around here today.
DANGER AT THE DRAWBRIDGEMILDRED A. WIRT
Cagey explained the situation, and from then on to train time, Hal was patted and petted and given dainties from lunch baskets.
ARMY LETTERS FROM AN OFFICER'S WIFE, 1871-1888FRANCES M.A. ROE
He would be cagey enough to stay ignorant of any overt strife or any other skullduggery that could be laid at his door.
HIGHWAYS IN HIDINGGEORGE OLIVER SMITH
Hal is in the house now, with Cagey, and Billie is there also, and has the exclusive run of one room.
ARMY LETTERS FROM AN OFFICER'S WIFE, 1871-1888FRANCES M.A. ROE
Theyve got Rawlings for a manager and hes one of the most cagey men in the game.
BASEBALL JOE ON THE GIANTSLESTER CHADWICK
Doc Stooders such a cagey old monkey he wouldnt let me put on paper just what I wanted you to whack in on.
DUST OF THE DESERTROBERT WELLES RITCHIE
I expect clients to be cagey, to hold back information, and to lie.
A SPACESHIP NAMED MCGUIREGORDON RANDALL GARRETT
WORDS RELATED TO CAGEY
- active
- all ears
- bright
- cagey
- careful
- circumspect
- clever
- fast on the draw
- good hands
- heads up
- heedful
- hip
- intelligent
- jazzed
- observant
- on guard
- on the ball
- on the job
- on the lookout
- on the qui vive
- perceptive
- psyched up
- quick
- ready
- sharp
- spirited
- switched on
- vigilant
- wary
- watchful
- wide-awake
- wired
- wise
- with it
- able
- acute
- adroit
- astute
- cagey
- careful
- cautious
- circumspect
- cunning
- dexterous
- discreet
- foxy
- frugal
- having fancy footwork
- hep
- ingenious
- intelligent
- judicious
- knowing
- nimble-witted
- perspicacious
- prudent
- quick
- quick-witted
- sagacious
- shrewd
- skillful
- slick
- slippery
- sly
- smart
- smooth
- street smart
- streetwise
- subtle
- wary
- watchful
- wise
- with it
- worldly-wise
- alert
- all ears
- cagey
- calculating
- chary
- circumspect
- considerate
- discreet
- forethoughtful
- gingerly
- heedful
- judicious
- leery
- on the lookout
- playing it cool
- playing safe
- politic
- provident
- prudent
- pussyfoot
- safe
- shrewd
- taking it easy
- taking it slow
- tentative
- thinking twice
- vigilant
- walking on eggs
- wary
- watchful
- watching out
- able
- adept
- adroit
- alert
- apt
- astute
- brainy
- brilliant
- cagey
- canny
- capable
- competent
- crackerjack
- cunning
- deep
- dexterous/dextrous
- discerning
- egghead
- expert
- foxy
- gifted
- good
- handy
- intelligent
- inventive
- keen
- knowing
- knowledgeable
- many-sided
- nimble
- pretty
- pro
- qualified
- quick
- quick on trigger
- quick-witted
- rational
- resourceful
- sagacious
- savvy
- sensible
- sharp
- shrewd
- skilled
- skillful
- slick
- sly
- smart
- sprightly
- talented
- versatile
- wise
- witty
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