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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Many birders are cagey about owl sighting locations out of respect for the solitary birds’ privacy and safety, so you likely won’t get far by searching the web.
TRANSFORM YOUR YARD INTO AN OWL KINGDOMJOHN KENNEDYJULY 29, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEGig companies have sometimes been cagey about how much their workers make, and they’re often changing their formulas.
ROBOTS WERE SUPPOSED TO TAKE OUR JOBS. INSTEAD, THEY’RE MAKING THEM WORSE.EMILY STEWARTJULY 2, 2021VOXGamaleya has been cagey with its data, too, despite having a four-month head-start on Western pharmas.
HOW AMERICA COULD BE HELPING COVID RAVAGE THE WORLDDAVID AXEMAY 21, 2021THE DAILY BEASTWhen detectives asked him about his conversation with Lewis, Gilbert was cagey, saying it concerned a “personal matter.”
THE MURDER CHICAGO DIDN’T WANT TO SOLVEBY MICK DUMKEFEBRUARY 25, 2021PROPUBLICAPodcast’s ad dollars may be growing, but Tenderfoot TV founder Donald Albright knows how cagey buyers can be.
‘WE HAVE TO GROW THIS RESPONSIBLY’: TENDERFOOT TV CO-FOUNDER DONALD ALBRIGHT ON THE PODCASTING’S BRIGHT (BUT CONSOLIDATED) FUTUREPIERRE BIENAIMÉAUGUST 25, 2020DIGIDAYHe 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 SMITHIt was wonderful how sort of patriotic and unselfish and religious and cagey he always was.
YELLOWSTONE NIGHTSHERBERT QUICKTheyve got Rawlings for a manager and hes one of the most cagey men in the game.
BASEBALL JOE ON THE GIANTSLESTER CHADWICKIf 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. WIRTCagey 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. ROEWORDS 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 one's toes
- 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
- hedging one's bets
- heedful
- judicious
- keeping on one's toes
- 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 one's step
- watching out
- with one's eyes peeled
- 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
- nobody's fool
- 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.