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英:['keɪdʒɪ]
美:['keɪdʒɪ]
Adjective
1. showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others;
"a cagey lawyer"
"too clever to be sound"
2. characterized by great cautious and wariness;
"a cagey avoidance of a definite answer"
"chary of the risks involved"
"a chary investor"
origin unknown
The first known use of cagey was in 1876
calculatingadjective
designed to make calculations
a calculating machine
tending to plan or study things with much care and caution
scheming
calcitenoun
a mineral substance made up of calcium carbonate and found in numerous forms including limestone, chalk, and marble
cairnnoun
a heap of stones piled up as a landmark or as a memorial
caimannoun
any of several Central and South American reptiles closely related to and resembling alligators
cageyadjective
very careful of not being trapped or deceived
a cagey buyer
1 a cagey old politician who is exceptionally skilled at getting federal money for his district
2 He had been known as a very effective and cagy immigration hard-liner.
3 He was cagey , cagy about speaking of it.
他不太想说那件事.
4 I’m not trying to be cagy, but I’ll need their consent to put it over—and I don’t want to get up false hopes, you know.
5 Banks, regulated at the federal level, are still cagy about lending to businesses that the federal government considers to be engaged in crime.
6 Team director Ihab Lahita was cagey about his progress, saying there was no guarantee Salah will play in Egypt's Group A opener against Uruguay on Friday.
7 Maybe David thought he got one over on him, but Trump was cagy enough to convey that he didn’t care.
8 Cote and Mark were pretty cagey when asked if Michael will be back.
9 DeSantis has been extremely cagey when asked direct questions about his vaccination status.
10 It feels desperate; an admission of failure instead of a cagy commitment to seize the day.
11 "He knows that he's followed, all right, and he's cagy enough to keep in the open and pretend to be aboveboard."
12 Whether the new status afforced Trump by GOP insiders represents a surrender, an acceptance of his strength or a cagy last-ditch establishment ploy to derail him, it comes with baggage for the candidate.
13 The Schuyler sisters provide the most beautiful voices in the production, with Krystal Joy Brown offering a poignant Eliza, and Mandy Gonzalez a smart and cagey Angelica.
14 The United States may be growing more cagy in its dealings with the world's great rising power, but the UK is moving in the other direction, prepared to take risks to "run towards China".
15 Though he rarely heeded its summons—cagy boy that he was—the telephone rang oftenest for Nick.
16 It’s difficult to figure, so we have a cagy answer of our own: By any rational analysis Hillary Clinton would have to be reckoned the favorite, but Trump feels like a winner.
17 However, he did not blame the Belphin for being so cagy about his race's source of power, not with people like the Flockharts running about subverting and whatnot.
18 Dense with paranoia, cagy conversations and grainy, surveillance-camera footage, it presents Masha’s celebrated ascent to the Nashi leadership — complete with car, apartment, college education and her own television talk show — as a Faustian bargain.
19 It’s cagy, as you’d expect from the first half of four in a European Cup semi-final, but it’s been fascinating nevertheless.
20 He's squintin' at me foxy out of them shifty eyes of his, cagy and suspicious, like we was playin' some kind of a game.
1 精明的
smart sharp cute clever dodgy astute shrewd canny politic brainy fiendish cagey adroit sagacious hardheaded crazy as a fox crazy like a fox up to snuff
3 不泄漏秘密的