Cagey

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cagey
       adj 1: showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others;
              "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound" [syn: {cagy},
               {canny}, {clever}]
       2: characterized by great cautious and wariness; "a cagey
          avoidance of a definite answer"; "chary of the risks


          involved"; "a chary investor" [syn: {cagy}, {chary}]
       [also: {cagiest}, {cagier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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