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How to use cagey in a sentence

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Though still cagey about the new novel's subject matter, he does say it will deal with terrorism and with a hostage crisis.
When I asked to meet him in person, his publicity people turned cagey, stoking my curiosity even more.
The bird sellers are extremely cagey about sharing information, especially with press persons.
I had the distinct impression that he would not appreciate the wrong answer so I decided to play it cagey.
I've been dating Sam for months now, but just recently he's become very secretive and cagey around me.
Even when our yearbook pictures were splattered around national headlines, I've stayed pretty cagey.
Suddenly, caution was the watchword and she grew cagey and defensive, waiting for the chances to land in her lap.
In the good old days, organised crime figures in the United States were cagey, one step ahead of the law at every turn.
He's acting mighty cagey for a guy who just reads the papers, don't you think?
Khan scores the first point of the bout in a cagey first round as both boxers size each other up.
A cagey opening frame went to O'Sullivan after his opponent missed a straightforward green.
She is cagey about the terminology, though, and doesn't use it in the book.
He is cagey, though, on the extent to which he will have room to manoeuvre in the business of player recruitment.
If the 25-year-old was less unassuming and more cagey, he would know that is not the sort of thing a team's talismanic striker is meant to say.
It's just a case of playing cagey, going careful, and not overstretching yourself.
He was scrupulous about listing himself as a co-founder of Greenpeace and was cagey about how many co-founders there were.
The cagey bartender was pocketing the money for himself and replenishing bottles with his own supply purchased at a nearby liquor store.
However, after some maneuvering by Leno, his cagey manager, and NBC executives, Leno was named host of Tonight.
Insightful, if a bit cagey, critiques of modern political philosophy.
And, you know, people are crafty and they're cagey, and if they see an employer they're gonna hightail it, get rid of the stuff.
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Theyve got Rawlings for a manager and hes one of the most cagey men in the game.
It was wonderful how sort of patriotic and unselfish and religious and cagey he always was.
He would be cagey enough to stay ignorant of any overt strife or any other skullduggery that could be laid at his door.
And there weren't any at all about the asylum, only a few poor weeny-teeny things out in front with little whitewashed cagey things about them.
I expect clients to be cagey, to hold back information, and to lie.
After a cagey opening half in which the best of the chances fell to Bradford, the Spireites came out with purpose after the break.
The Stuttgart striker was on target in 38 minutes after a cagey start from both sides.
Both sides have built their fine starts on solid defence rather than attacking flair and this will be cagey.
But we're all growing older, and Stern's pretty cagey about immigration.
They've been drinking Blood all Morning and are feeling good and cagey.
Previous encounters against Chelsea have often been cagey affairs and Carrick admits he would happily bore his way to a European Cup win.
The Hull bantamweight scored a cagey 4-1 success over Germany's Denis Makarov to reach tomorrow night's final, in which he will meet experienced Bulgarian Detelin Dalakliev.
Hull bantamweight Campbell scored a cagey 4-1 win over Germany's Denis Makarov to reach the final where he will meet experienced Bulgarian Detelin Dalakliev.
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