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- adverb In a
cagy manner.
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- adverb in a cagey manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Delivered rather cagily to me and my partner Fiona over breakfast a few months ago, our son Finn's announcement offered few clues that it might herald something altogether more profound.
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So it's easy to understand why, when a bank officer shows up wanting to know how three mortgages got sold for the same property within an hour, the participants cagily trick the bank officer into signing the next set of papers and becoming the new owner of a severely overvalued property.
George Heymont: The Best of BOA: Bay One Acts Festival Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary George Heymont 2011
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Okay, I throw my hands up and can only say that Nadler's current show, "Crazy 1961," which he reprises twice more January 15 and 22 at Manhattan's Laurie Beechman Theatre, is yet another in his highly diverting, cagily intelligent enterprises.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Mark Nadler's Outstanding, Outrageous 'Crazy 1961' David Finkle 2012
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And the three-volume tome -- unexpurgated, but written cagily, and yet still self-revealingly at times -- has prompted me to pursue one of the great humorist's own personal delights.
David Tereshchuk: Celebrating a Virtually Forgotten Media Maestro David Tereshchuk 2011
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And the three-volume tome -- unexpurgated, but written cagily, and yet still self-revealingly at times -- has prompted me to pursue one of the great humorist's own personal delights.
David Tereshchuk: Celebrating a Virtually Forgotten Media Maestro David Tereshchuk 2011
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Okay, I throw my hands up and can only say that Nadler's current show, "Crazy 1961," which he reprises twice more January 15 and 22 at Manhattan's Laurie Beechman Theatre, is yet another in his highly diverting, cagily intelligent enterprises.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Mark Nadler's Outstanding, Outrageous 'Crazy 1961' David Finkle 2012
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This from a man who has cagily refused to propose a single structural reform to entitlements in his three years in office.
Other Comments 2011
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“Neither sensational nor cagily sentimental nor self pitying, this grounded, exquisitely written work . . . requires reading.”
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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Okay, I throw my hands up and can only say that Nadler's current show, "Crazy 1961," which he reprises twice more January 15 and 22 at Manhattan's Laurie Beechman Theatre, is yet another in his highly diverting, cagily intelligent enterprises.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Mark Nadler's Outstanding, Outrageous 'Crazy 1961' David Finkle 2012
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And the three-volume tome -- unexpurgated, but written cagily, and yet still self-revealingly at times -- has prompted me to pursue one of the great humorist's own personal delights.
David Tereshchuk: Celebrating a Virtually Forgotten Media Maestro David Tereshchuk 2011
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