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Cagy

adjective
1.
Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.  Synonyms: cagey, canny, clever.  "Too clever to be sound"
2.
Characterized by great caution and wariness.  Synonyms: cagey, chary.  "Chary of the risks involved" , "A chary investor"






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"Cagy" Quotes from Famous Books



... no. Far from it. But I'm still working for my M. R. S. degree, and I haven't succeeded in snaring it yet. You'd be surprised at how cagy those officers got after a few of them had been captured. But they are just like any other hunted game, I suppose—the antelopes that survive get pretty wild, you know," she ...
— Spacehounds of IPC • Edward Elmer Smith



Words linked to "Cagy" :   smart, cagey, cautious



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