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cageyadjectivealso cagy clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive meansa cagey old politician who is exceptionally skilled at getting federal money for his district artful, beguiling, crafty, cunning, cute, designing, devious, dodgy(chiefly British), foxy, guileful, scheming, shrewd, slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wily astute, facile, glib, sharpcrooked, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, fraudulent, insinuating, knavish, Machiavellian, oblique, serpentine, shady, shifty, slippery, sneaky, treacherous, underhand, underhanded, unscrupulousbackhanded, double-dealing, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, smooth-tongued, two-facedcircuitous, circular, roundaboutclandestine, concealed, covert, furtive, hugger-mugger, secret, stealthy, surreptitious, undercovercalculating, plotting artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, undesigning obvious, open, patent, plain, public, unconcealedaboveboard, candid, direct, forthright, frank, honest, natural, outspoken, plainspoken, real, simple, sincere, straightforward, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious, unvarnishedchildlike, impressionable, simpleminded, unsophisticated, unworldlyunforced, unstudiedtrustful, trusting slow to begin or proceed with a course of action because of doubts or uncertaintywhen it came time to sign the contract, he suddenly got cagey about taking on the job disinclined, dubious, hesitant, indisposed, loath(also loth or loathe), reluctant, reticent uneager, unenthusiasticaverse, unwillingambivalent, conflicted, doubtful, faltering, halting, indecisive, infirm, irresolute, questioning, skeptical, uncertain, undecided, unsure, vacillating, wobbly(also wabbly)fainthearted, shy, timid disposed, inclined eager, enthusiastic, glad, happy, keenready, willingcertain, decided, determined, resolute, sure, unquestioning in 1876 |