cagey
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Synonyms
artful, beguiling, crafty, cunning, cute, designing, devious, dodgy [chiefly British], foxy, guileful, scheming, shrewd, slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wily
Antonyms
artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, undesigning
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Brittney is playfully cagey when the subject arises. — Randy Cordova, azcentral, "'Grantchester' returns for season 4 on PBS with more murders and a mysterious new vicar," 7 July 2019 The game got cagier from this point onward with previous few good chances for either side. — SI.com, "Copa América Roundup: Uruguay Clinch Top Spot as Ecuador & Japan Are Eliminated," 25 June 2019 Luckily, the show's castmembers aren't always as cagey, and what's more, two visually arresting trailers provide plenty of information about the future direction of the story. — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, "'Westworld' Season 2: All the Details (So Far)," 5 Feb. 2018 Although Netflix is cagey about releasing numbers, the passion from ODAAT fans (including Lin-Manuel Miranda!) tells us there are many, many people who care about the show. — Rachel Yang, EW.com, "One Day at a Time deserved way more Emmys love than its one nomination," 17 July 2019 Marvel has been cagey so far about its post-Avengers: Endgame film plans, but sequels for Doctor Strange and Black Panther are in the works, and Scarlett Johansson is currently filming a standalone Black Widow movie. — Devan Coggan, EW.com, "Marvel really wants to make a movie with Keanu Reeves," 20 June 2019 Last August, Burrage and her colleagues posted a paper on the scientific preprint site arxiv.org suggesting a way to lay a trap for these cagey cosmic chameleons. — Quanta Magazine, "Dark Energy Tested on a Tabletop," 31 Mar. 2015 After starting very cagey, this game was really starting to open up. — SI.com, "Arsenal Withstands CSKA Moscow Comeback, Reaches Europa League Semifinals," 12 Apr. 2018 The Petrel team has been a little cagey about Hornet's precise location, and for good reason. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "Explorers Discover the Wreck of the Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet, Sunk in World War II," 12 Feb. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'cagey.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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