cagey
புறஞ்சொல்லாத
definition
adjective
manufacturers are cagey about the recipes they use to create a wine
reluctant to give information owing to caution or suspicion.
translation of 'cagey'
புறஞ்சொல்லாத
example
Though still 'cagey' about the new novel's subject matter, he does say it will deal with terrorism and with a hostage crisis.
So they are 'cagey' about letting the common herd assess their work.
She is 'cagey' about the terminology, though, and doesn't use it in the book.
If the 25-year-old was less unassuming and more 'cagey' , he would know that is not the sort of thing a team's talismanic striker is meant to say.
I've been dating Sam for months now, but just recently he's become very secretive and 'cagey' around me.
It's just a case of playing 'cagey' , going careful, and not overstretching yourself.
He is 'cagey' , though, on the extent to which he will have room to manoeuvre in the business of player recruitment.
He's acting mighty 'cagey' for a guy who just reads the papers, don't you think?
I had the distinct impression that he would not appreciate the wrong answer so I decided to play it 'cagey' .
While some were 'cagey' , to say the least, others had no such problems.
He is intent on making people look good but not necessarily beautiful in his work and achieves this by capturing secretive, edgy or 'cagey' subjects.
Gilbert was being very 'cagey' about his future prospects yesterday.
Tassie is 'cagey' about the worth of his license, but the 30 or so permits in his zone are worth more than $4 million each.
The bird sellers are extremely 'cagey' about sharing information, especially with press persons.
The more 'cagey' British ministers become about the evidence, the more likely are their opponents, and the media, to continue obsessing on the issue.
When I asked to meet him in person, his publicity people turned 'cagey' , stoking my curiosity even more.
Suddenly, caution was the watchword and she grew 'cagey' and defensive, waiting for the chances to land in her lap.
Whether he will ever return to Russia permanently is another question altogether, and he answers it with the 'caginess' he displays when discussing retirement.
But if there were, why all this 'caginess' and obfuscation?
Isn't the very 'caginess' of this means of attack a bit odd?
Staying put in my state of mind is even less of an option than going out, so we're 'cagily' descending the threadbare stairs, the carpet so worn that it's as hazardous as the side of a glacier.
At lunchtime, he snuck off, being very 'cagy' about where he was to have lunch.
His ‘anxiety almost - panic’ escalates when she 'cagily' adds that she has ‘given some thought to donating [her farm] as a wildlife preserve.’
Since we didn't know the sex, we were a bit 'cagy' and said that we'd have to see.
‘I can't say because it wouldn't be fair to those who paid me,’ she responded 'cagily' .
In between pleas of privacy, ignorance, and harassment, he still answers questions, 'cagily' and painfully; he clearly wants to be left alone, but also wants to make sense of things.
On the day we meet at her office, she is radiating a 'caginess' that comes from years spent defending her opinions.
‘It would seem so’ I replied 'cagily' , trying to seem like someone who knows about such things.
The staff was 'cagy' , but confirmed my suspicion with slight, knowing expressions and small tight smiles of sympathy.
But we've seen him operate, and his current words and actions fit his usual 'cageyness' .
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