cagey

adj.守口如瓶的;adj.警惕的;adj.聪明的,

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
cagey (adjective)
1.
hesitant about committing oneself - officials are cagey about giving out details
2.
a) wary of being trapped or deceived - shrewd a cagey consumer
b) marked by cleverness - a cagey reply
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
cagey (adjective)
1.
clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means
SYNONYMS:
beguiling, cagey ( cagy), crafty, cunning, cute, designing, devious, dodgy, foxy, guileful, scheming, shrewd, slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wily
RELATED WORDS:
astute, facile, glib, sharp; crooked, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, fraudulent, insinuating, knavish, Machiavellian, oblique, serpentine, shady, shifty, slippery, sneaky, treacherous, underhand, underhanded, unscrupulous; backhanded, double-dealing, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, smooth-tongued, two-faced; circuitous, circular, roundabout; clandestine, concealed, covert, furtive, hugger-mugger, secret, stealthy, surreptitious, undercover; calculating, plotting
NEAR ANTONYMS:
obvious, open, patent, plain, public, unconcealed; aboveboard, candid, direct, forthright, frank, honest, natural, outspoken, plainspoken, real, simple, sincere, straightforward, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious, unvarnished; childlike, impressionable, simpleminded, unsophisticated, unworldly; unforced, unstudied; trustful, trusting
artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, undesigning
cagey (adjective)
2.
slow to begin or proceed with a course of action because of doubts or uncertainty
SYNONYMS:
cagey ( cagy), disinclined, dubious, indisposed, loath ( loth loathe), reluctant, reticent
RELATED WORDS:
uneager, unenthusiastic; averse, unwilling; ambivalent, conflicted, doubtful, faltering, halting, indecisive, infirm, irresolute, questioning, skeptical, uncertain, undecided, unsure, vacillating, wobbly ( wabbly); fainthearted, shy, timid
NEAR ANTONYMS:
eager, enthusiastic, glad, happy, keen; ready, willing; certain, decided, determined, resolute, sure, unquestioning
disposed, inclined
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