[syn: cagey, cagy, chary]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
cagey
adj 1: showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with
others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound" [syn:
cagey, cagy, canny, clever]
2: characterized by great caution and wariness; "a cagey
avoidance of a definite answer"; "chary of the risks
involved"; "a chary investor" [syn: cagey, cagy, chary]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "cagey":
Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful, astute, canny,
chary, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid,
designing, diplomatic, distrustful, elusive, elusory, evasive,
feline, foxy, guileful, ingenious, insidious, inventive, knowing,
leery, malingering, mistrustful, pawky, politic, ready,
resourceful, scheming, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shirking, shrewd,
shy, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical,
stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, suspecting,
suspicious, tactical, trickish, tricksy, tricky, vulpine, wary,
wily