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caginess

/key-jee/US // ˈkeɪ dʒi //UK // (ˈkeɪdʒɪ) //

笼统,笼罩性,笼统性,笼络人心

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    cag·i·er, cag·i·est.

    • : cautious, wary, or shrewd: a cagey reply to the probing question.

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Examples

  • Many birders are cagey about owl sighting locations out of respect for the solitary birds’ privacy and safety, so you likely won’t get far by searching the web.

  • Gig companies have sometimes been cagey about how much their workers make, and they’re often changing their formulas.

  • Gamaleya has been cagey with its data, too, despite having a four-month head-start on Western pharmas.

  • When detectives asked him about his conversation with Lewis, Gilbert was cagey, saying it concerned a “personal matter.”

  • Podcast’s ad dollars may be growing, but Tenderfoot TV founder Donald Albright knows how cagey buyers can be.

  • Obama has been cagey about where he stands, not wanting to anger environmentalists.

  • I can see how it would make people come across as cagey or aloof.

  • Pelton is raising money for a trip to central Africa—he says he will be in four countries, and is cagey about naming them.

  • And this may well be why the Obama administration is using cagey language to hedge on its commitments.

  • However, after some maneuvering by Leno, his cagey manager, and NBC executives, Leno was named host of Tonight.

  • He would be cagey enough to stay ignorant of any overt strife or any other skullduggery that could be laid at his door.

  • It was wonderful how sort of patriotic and unselfish and religious and cagey he always was.

  • Theyve got Rawlings for a manager and hes one of the most cagey men in the game.

  • If they really have a ‘man wanted’ sign hung on him he would be too cagey to come around here today.

  • Cagey explained the situation, and from then on to train time, Hal was patted and petted and given dainties from lunch baskets.