Cagey
"Cagey" in a Sentence (5 examples)
He seemed awfully cagey when I asked him what he needed the additional supplies for.
She's cagey about her plans.
Samara: I will be in the shadows watching, Shepard. You will never be alone -- this I swear. But you cannot barge in with guns and allies. Samara: Morinth is far too cagey -- she'd simply disappear. This is a subtle, delicate act. Trust me.
But with both sides in the Premier League's bottom three before the game began, the three points at stake made for a cagey match.
John F Kennedy’s secret talks with Soviet intelligence, surreptitious tape recordings and “girlfriend system” create a new portrait of a cunning and cagey JFK, according to a historian who has researched a treasure trove of recently released recordings and papers of the late president.
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