From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound" [syn: {cagy}, {canny}, {clever}]
2: characterized by great cautious and wariness; "a cagey avoidance of a definite answer"; "chary of the risks involved"; "a chary investor" [syn: {cagy}, {chary}] [also: {cagiest}, {cagier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "cagey": Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful, astute, canny, chary, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, designing, diplomatic, distrustful, elusive, elusory, evasive, feline, foxy, guileful, ingenious, insidious, inventive, knowing, leery, malingering, mistrustful, pawky, politic, ready, resourceful, scheming, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shirking, shrewd, shy, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, suspecting, suspicious, tactical, trickish, tricksy, tricky, vulpine, wary, wily
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