What is another word for cagey?

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What is another word for cagey?

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alert, be on, canny, cautious, chary, circumspect, clever, crafty, cunning, dextrous, diplomatic, disbelieving, discreet, elusive, evasive, guarded, hep, mazy, mindful, on the qui vive, opportunistic, overcareful, overcautious, sagacious, savvy, serpentine, shark, shifty, shrewd, slippery, sly, smooth-spoken, snakelike, sneaking, streetwise, suspicious, tricky, unspecific, untrusting, up on, wary, wily, Double dealing, Elusory, Hepper, Observative, Witted, nimble-witted, wideawake, over-careful, on the lookout, alive to, psyched up, in the know, on the inside, in doubt, on the ball, all ears, be up on, been hit before, crazy like a fox, crazy like fox, difficult to catch, unwasteful, fast on the draw, good hands, handling with kid gloves, having fancy footwork, heads up, know all the answers, know ins and outs, know the answers, not born yesterday on the lookout, on one's toes, on the job, on toes, on top of, prevaricative, prevaricatory, quick on trigger, switched on, tuned in, twisting and turning, with eyes peeled, without belief, without faith, worldly wise, on the stick, property, quality, abdomen, abide, abreast, abrupt, abstruse, accept, acceptance, ache, acuate, acute accent, acutely, add, adulterous, advertent, affection, affectionateness, agile, ague, ailing, alarm, alarum, alerting, alertness, alive, allow, alluring, ambidextrous, annoy, annoyance, antipathetic, antipathetical, anxious, apposite, apprehend, apprehension, arbitrarily, arc, arcanum, archway, argus-eyed, assumed, asymmetrical, at random, atomic number 102, attentive, attribute, au courant, au fait, averse, aviate, awake, aware, awkward, backstair, baffling, ball up, bass, be adrift, bear, belly, belongings, belowground, bestow, birth, black eye, blanch, bland, blast, bluster, boast, bobble, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bosom, botch, botch up, botheration, brag, breadbasket, bribable, bright, bring in, brisk, broad, brook, bumble, bump, bungle, burn out, butt, buttery, calculative, caliber, calibre, capture, cart, catchy, cause, center, centre, chafe, chanceful, chancy, change course, changeable, character, cheating, check, chic, choice, cigaret, cigarette, circuitous, clear-eyed, climate, cloak-and-dagger, close, closed book, closed in, closelipped, closemouthed, coffin nail, coke, collateral, collusive, compass, comprehend, condescend, condescending, conquer, conservative, consume, contribute, convey, cook, core, corrupt, corruptible, craft, craftiness, creep, crisp, cryptic, cryptical, curve, deceit, deception, deeply, deft, deliberate, deliver, delusive, delusory, descend, design, deterrent, dexterous, dicey, diffident, dig, digest, dim, dimension, diplomatical, discerning, discernment, discommode, discriminating, disembodied spirit, dishonorable, disoblige, disposed, dissent, dissimulation, double-faced, double-tongued, doubtful, drag in, drag on, drag out, draw, dredge, drift, drop back, drop behind, drudge, dubitable, duplicitous, earmark, eloquent, embarrassing, embroil, emotional state, endure, enigma, enticing, envy, ephemeral, essence, every which way, experience, eye, facile, fag out, faint, faithlessly, fake, fallacious, fast, fastest, fatigue, faux, feature, feel, feeling, feigning, felid, fell, fellate, fetch, fictitious, fictive, fishy, fix, flavor, flavour, flee, float, flub, fluent, fluff, fluid, fly ball, fly front, fly sheet, flying, fondness, foolhardy, foxiness, fraudulent, fresh, fuck up, fulsome, fumble, funny, furtive, fuss, gas, gasconade, gear up, get, get at, get behind, get on, get the picture, get to, gist, give, give birth, given, glib, glossy, gluey, glutinous, go down on, goldbricking, goofing off, grasp, gravel, greasy, grievance, grind, guile, gummy, gust, gybe, hale, handicap, hang back, haphazardly, hassle, haul, have got, heart and soul, hesitancy, hesitation, hidden, hindrance, hip, hip to, hold, holding, hole-and-corner, humor, humour, hunched, hurt, hush-hush, ill at ease, imaginative, imitation, immediate, impart, impediment, impertinent, implike, impudent, in camera, in question, incisive, incommode, inconvenience, inconvenience oneself, indiscriminately, induce, infliction, ingest, inquiring, inquisitive, inscrutable, insomniac, inspirit, instead, institute, intense, intent, intentional, intoxicating, inwardness, irritate, jade, janus-faced, jesuit, jesuitic, jibe, judicious, keen, kernel, kind of, kinda, knavish, knifelike, knotty, knowledgeable, labor, labour, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, land, late, law-abiding, learned, legato, lend, let, lettered, liable, life, limber, lineament, liquid, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, liveliness, lively, look, louse up, make, make for, marrow, measured, meat, melt off, merry, metro, mettle, middle, minded, mischievous, mishandle, mistaken, modality, mode, moderate, moil, mouse, mucilaginous, muck up, muggy, mystery, mystic, mystical, mystifying, nance, nark, neat, needlelike, nerve, nervous, nettle, niggardly, nimble, nitty-gritty, no more, nobelium, nub, objection, oblique case, observing, occult, oceanic abyss, off-key, oleaginous, on one's guard, on your guard, opportunist, orphic, outwear, overbold, own, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck, pale, pansy, passing, pasty, pat, patronising, patronizing, paying attention, peaked, penetrating, penetrative, pernicious, pertinent, piercing, pilot, pith, pixilated, place, placid, play, polish, poof, poorly, poove, possess, pouf, power, prankish, precious, precipitous, preferably, prepare, pretence, pretended, pretense, prime, private, privately, privy, prize, problematic, problematical, professional, prompt, promptly, prop, protestation, puckish, puff, pull, pump, punic, purchasable, purport, put out, queasy, queen, qui vive, quickly, quiet, quite, quizzical, rafter, rag, randomly, rash, rattling, receive, reckless, recondite, reduce, resent, reserve, resist, resistance, restless, retarding force, retiring, reversal, reverse, rich, rich person, rile, round-backed, round-shouldered, roundabout, sassy, satiny, saucy, sceptical, score, screw up, scrimy, scuff, sebaceous, secluded, seedy, seize, select, self-effacing, set, set up, setback, shadowed, shady, shaggy, sham, sharp-sightedness, sharp-worded, sharply, shifting, shine, shock, shoot a line, short-lived, shove along, shove off, shrill, shut, sickly, silken, silklike, silky, silver, silver-tongued, simulated, sinuous, skeptical, skulking, slacking, sleek, sleek down, sleepless, slender, slenderize, slick down, slick magazine, slickness, slight, slim down, slip, slipperiness, slippy, slyness, smarmy, smarting, smartness, smell, smooth out, smoothen, snappy, sneak, snow, soapy, soldiering, sooner, sort of, sour, spanking, speculative, speedy, spirit up, spoil, sprightliness, spry, spunk, squander, stand, steamy, stew, stick out, still, stimulate, stooped, stooping, straightaway, strategical, suave, substance, subway, suffer, sum, support, suspect, sustain, svelte, swash, sweep, sweep up, take, take flight, tangle, tart, temper, tempting, tenderness, tending, tent flap, tent-fly, thick, thin, thoughtful, thrifty, throw, ticker, tightlipped, timber, timbre, timeserving, timid, tire, tire out, toil, tolerate, toleration, tone, too-careful, tough, tout, trail, traitorously, tranquil, transient, transitory, travail, treacherously, treasonably, trench, trouble, trouble oneself, tube, tum, tummy, two-faced, umbrageous, unavowed, unbelieving, uncooperative, under the weather, underarm, undercover, underhanded, underhandedly, understanding, unemotional, unenviable, unopen, unquiet, unreliable, unruffled, unsure, unsympathetic, untalkative, untrue, unwell, upon one's guard, vague, vanish, vaporize, vaunt, venal, venter, vex, viscid, viscous, voguish, vulpecular, wakeful, warm, warmheartedness, warmness, warning signal, waste, wealthy person, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary, well-educated, well-read, wicked, wiliness, wing, wise to, wispy, wondering, work, working, worried, wraithlike, wreak, zippy, nose candy, rainfly, external oblique muscle, musculus obliquus externus abdominis, abdominal external oblique muscle, classified ad, classified advertisement, put on, put up, mess up, take in, blow out, foul up, with-it, fairy, muff, suck, queer, devil, faggot, fagot, subway system, set aside, double-dealing, hugger-mugger, jazzed, more careful, more jazzed, quickest, fast draw, wisest, most jazzed, more intelligent, fast the draw, on ones toes, wide awake, on job, on qui vive, on one toes, fast on draw, quick, observant, cagey, cagy, most nimble witted, most nimble-witted, more nimble witted, more nimblewitted, more nimble-witted, most nimblewitted, quickwitted, quick witted, heppest, more acute, more streetwise, foxy, Worldlywise, most streetwise, nimble witted, nimblewitted, with one's eyes peeled, forethoughtful, safest, watching one's step, taking it slow, hedging one's bets, walking on eggs, thinking twice, pussyfoot, SAFER, watching out, gingerly, provident, keeping on one's toes, playing it cool, taking it easy, uneasy, de-liberate, de liberate, dis-criminating, dis criminating, manysided, more crackerjack, nobody's fool, dexterous-dextrous, most egghead, most knowledgeable, more egghead, most crackerjack, many sided, quick trigger, most capable, nobody fool, re sourceful, more talented, pro, re-sourceful, dexterous dextrous, more skilled, dexterousdextrous, nobodys fool, witty, de-signing, de signing, dis-ingenuous, dis ingenuous, fancy footwork, sly boots, more contriving, most opportunistic, most contriving, more opportunistic, more conniving, most conniving, distrustful, questioning, aporetic, SHOW-ME, Precautious, on lookout, like a clam, non-committal, having foresight, not rash, doubting, up-tight, dis-trustful, up tight, dis trustful, in definable, in substantial, in-comprehensible, in comprehensible, most stonewalling, mis leading, most unspecific, mis-leading, most phantom, in-substantial, in-definable, more stonewalling, fugacious, more phantom, evanescent, more unspecific, more elusory, un specific, un-specific, difficult catch, in-tangible, most elusory, in tangible, most illusory, sophistical, casuistic, casuistical, over-cautious, more overcareful, most overcareful, over cautious, most overcautious, over careful, more overcautious, know ins outs, be upon, more observative, most observative, plugged in, in know, know all answers, on to, know answers, mis-trustful, mistrustful, mis trustful, on ball, on stick, open-eyed, openeyed, gnostic, far-sighted, sapient, clearsighted, Astucious, Sophic, clear-sighted, in privacy, in the background, clammed up, unforthcoming, backstairs, in chambers, buttoned up, in private, maziest, Meandrous, most twisting, more twisting, twisting turning, most snakelike, most coiling, more coiling, mazier, more snakelike, more prevaricative, most unhonest, most dodging, most prevaricative, un principled, dis honest, more dodging, un-principled, Unhonest, un honest, un-truthful, more prevaricatory, dis-honest, mendacious, under hand, more unhonest, fly by night, most prevaricatory, under-hand, un-honest, most argute, pro founder, pro found, pro-found, in side, shrewdest, on inside, sharkest, pro-founder, more argute, wised up, Sharker, more smooth-spoken, more dextrous, most smooth spoken, most dextrous, most smooth-spoken, smoothspoken, smooth spoken, most smoothspoken, more smooth spoken, more smoothspoken, in-secure, un stabler, in-constant, un safe, un predictable, un safer, un steady, un-stabler, in-securer, twofaced, mutable, un safest, un steadiest, un-steadier, in securer, un-trustworthy, un-predictable, in secure, un stable, two faced, un-safer, un-stable, in-securest, un-safest, in securest, un-stablest, un stablest, un steadier, un-steadiest, un-safe, dis-honorable, impish, more plotting, more bluffing, most bluffing, un-scrupulous, un scrupulous, most plotting, dis honorable, doubledealing, street smart, greeneyed, more suspecting, not born yesterday lookout, green eyed, not born yesterday on lookout, not born yesterday the lookout, most suspecting, leery, un trusting, un-trusting, most unwasteful, more unwasteful, un-wasteful, un wasteful, under handed, under-handed, clandestine, perspicacious, secretive, careful, confidential, classified, shadowy, secret, mysterious, underground, in strict confidence, slick, wise, surreptitious, knowing, astute, ability, smart, alert

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