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cagy

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ca·gy  (kj)
adj.
Variant of cagey.
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Adj.1.cagy - showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound"
cagey, canny, clever
smart - showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness
2.cagy - characterized by great caution and wariness; "a cagey avoidance of a definite answer"; "chary of the risks involved"; "a chary investor"
chary, cagey
cautious - showing careful forethought; "reserved and cautious; never making swift decisions"; "a cautious driver"


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Sister Mary Zhu, the cagy elderly sister who has lived half of the history of the Presentation congregation, smiles and says, "Do I worry about the future?
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As we saw with Judge Abernathy at the outset, Angelo (who was a seventh son) was cagy when caged in monkey pens and doghouses.
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It's not difficult to recall how mainstream conservatives reacted to Bill Clinton's cagy equivocation about the meaning of the word "is.
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