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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others;
- Example: "a cagey lawyer"
- Example: "too clever to be sound"
[syn: cagey, cagy, canny, clever]

2. characterized by great caution and wariness;
- Example: "a cagey avoidance of a definite answer"
- Example: "chary of the risks involved"
- Example: "a chary investor"
[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