cagey
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It verifies Gloria’s singing talent and proves a perfect match for her showy, cagey persona: the love child of Marlene Dietrich and Sally Bowles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
As I peppered him with questions about the pink car and the Brinks armored truck, he remained cagey while slowly yielding information.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Food professionals from haute cuisine down to trend-savvy sandwich shops tend to be cagey about where they get their ramps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
A second US official was cagey when asked about whether an extension was likely to be agreed on Trump's trip.
From Barron's ● May 10, 2026
For one thing, though Tommy carried on with his animal pictures, he became cagey about doing them in my presence.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
With what's at stake, though, it might be a little cagier than that.
From BBC ● May 8, 2025
Lucas, who makes throwaway remarks about being a “cis white male” at an elite institution, is cagier — and more in control than his skittish demeanor lets on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2022
The answer here was cagier, and I was asked not to quote it directly.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2021
Some cagier gamblers might wait until closer to game time to bet the underdogs.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2019
Great Britain 3-4 Japan A match that’s cagier than London Zoo edges towards its conclusion.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2018
Few can parry like Bacon — and he was at his cagiest about his work, speaking abstractly of the importance of “chance” and “accident.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2021
Yet here she was, about to match wits with some of the cleverest and cagiest card players in the world.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2020
Though I had expected Johns to be guarded about his past or his personal life, it was a surprise to find him cagiest about his artistic process.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2019
She has a winsome translator, a force of loyal eunuch fighters and an adviser who happens to be the cagiest person in this entire story.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2016
Tuts, woman, open the yett," said Willie in his cagiest manner, "and I'll tell ye a' aboot it.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Alexander Leighton
