cagey
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- s showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others
a cagey lawyer - s characterized by great caution and wariness
a cagey avoidance of a definite answer
- By 1918 he was Hollywood's most popular male actor, outranking Charlie Chaplin; the top female was Mary Pickford, the cagey gamin called America's Sweetheart.
- On this point, Rowling is cagey.
- Back in London, Brian Epstein, the Beatles' manager, discoverer, and cagey promoter par excellence, struggled out of a sickbed and enplaned for Manhattan "to assess the situation.