Crossword-Solution: CAGEY 5 letters, 120 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

We have 120 clues for the answer “CAGEY”

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A bit ... guarded 1 answer
Cautiously shrewd 1 answer
Cleverly guarded 1 answer
Displaying shrewdness 1 answer
Hesitant about committing oneself 1 answer
Hesitant to commit 1 answer
Kinda guarded, or a homophonic hint to the starred answers 1 answer
Less than candid 1 answer
Not open with something 1 answer
Shrewd ... and a phonetic hint to this puzzle's four longest answers 1 answer
Shrewdly guarded 1 answer
Shrewdly wary 1 answer
Skilled at dodging 1 answer
Somewhat shrewd 1 answer
Warily shy 1 answer
Warily shy of being deceived. 1 answer
Hard to corner 2 answers
Hiding something, say 2 answers
Not easily duped 2 answers
Not giving much away 2 answers
Sly: Slang. 2 answers
Wary: Slang. 2 answers
Hardly open 3 answers
Not forthright 3 answers
Noncommittal 4 answers
Not forthcoming 4 answers
argute 5 answers
Tight-lipped 7 answers
BE FORTHRIGHT 10 answers
CAUTIOUS, AS A REPLY 11 answers
CUNNING AND SLY 11 answers
sneaking 43 answers
Conniving 44 answers
Duplicitous 45 answers
Sneaky 45 answers
Stealthy? 48 answers
Unpretentious 50 answers
sus 50 answers
Retiring 51 answers
cloistered 51 answers
undemonstrative 51 answers
Guileful 51 answers
Reclusive 53 answers
distrusting 53 answers
Surreptitious 53 answers
Sheep-ish? 54 answers
retreated 54 answers
Diffident 55 answers
Insidious 55 answers
timorous 56 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CAGEY (5)

Why can't I be more cagey, like Calibree and McGanum and the rest of the doctors? Oh, I am, but Maud's such a demanding idiot.
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 2006
This female personage is so appallingly cagey that even her main squeeze delights in cryptographically baffling the NSA.
The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook St. Jude, R. U. Sirius, Bart Nagel 1997
But not to dwell on small particularities, let it suffice to say, that she sent her coachman on one of her coach horses, which, being old and stiff, did not overtake the fugitives till they were in their bed at Kilmarnock, where they stopped that night; but when they came back to the lady’s in the morning, she was as cagey and meikle taken up with them, as if they had gotten her full consent and privilege to marry from the first.
Annals of the Parish John Galt 2015
She would not allow of such a thing as our being lodgers in her house, but was so cagey to see us, and to have it in her power to be civil to a minister, as she was pleased to say, of such repute, that nothing less would content her but that we must live upon her, and partake of all the best that could be gotten for us within the walls of “the gude town.” When we found ourselves so comfortable, Mrs.
Annals of the Parish John Galt 2015
Our camp "mess" has been started, and we will be very comfortable, I think, with a good soldier cook and Cagey to take care of the tents.
Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 Frances M.A. Roe 2004

Quotes with CAGEY (3)

My motto? Don’t trust someone who is just as cagey as yourself." "What kind of detective are you?” “A lousy one and proud of it. I write, remember?” She looked down at her hand & laughed. “Berretta doesn’t make lighters.” "Why I was a writer! My life revolved around fiction. I could make something up""She looked down at her hand & laughed. “Berretta doesn’t make lighters.” "So they're not Tolstoy, they're a little shorter... Okay, okay a lot. Go ahead, read my mystery series …
Peggy A. Edelheit
Larry has been absorbed, as he wished, into that tumultuous conglomeration of humanity, distracted by so many conflicting interests, so lost in the world's confusion, so wistful of good, so cocksure on the outside, so diffident within, so kind, so hard, so trustful and so cagey, so mean and so generous, which is the people of the United States.
W. Somerset Maugham The Razor's Edge
PhD, MFA, self-taught — the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success.
Alexander Chee
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 82 times in crossword archives (1947–2024).