What's the difference between cagey and clever?

Cagey


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "On both Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith they were very cagey about going public with the cast until the very last minute, as there were still negotiations going on up to the wire.
  • (2) Trump had long been cagey about participating in Thursday’s debate because of adversarial questioning from anchor Megyn Kelly in the first debate.
  • (3) Forget the notion that derbies are usually tense, cagey affairs.
  • (4) Jarvis was cagey about that one: he said that he didn't want to speak for the group, and also he felt that the concerts had been brilliant partly because Pulp hadn't done any press about them, they'd just announced them, accompanied by a few cryptic questions on their website.
  • (5) The combatants, well aware of each other’s strengths, were too cagey for that and, but for two knockdowns in the third, it was a contest that never properly took off.
  • (6) There seemed be a feeling out in Rio at the time that teams wanted to try and win the first game rather than being more cagey,” said O’Neill, who was in Brazil as a TV pundit.
  • (7) Neither team able to create a clear chance yet in a cagey start.
  • (8) Sam Mendes, during a radio interview, told me that he will decide when the time comes, while Stephen Daldry was similarly cagey and, perhaps significantly, was then specifically mentioned as a strong contender by Cooke, a friend and collaborator.
  • (9) Capello has got them playing classic cagey anti-football (despite his protests of good passing and movement) with the emphasis on pressing and bodies behind the ball.
  • (10) Moscow remains cagey, denying the west's accusations that President Vladimir Putin has provoked unrest, while also refusing to acknowledge Kiev or any wrongdoing.
  • (11) Hummels admits to being attracted by playing in the Premier League although, given the sensitivities of being contracted to Dortmund until 2017, is cagey when discussing the prospect.
  • (12) I'll be surprised if there aren't more goals in this game; it's nowhere near as cagey as I thought it would be.
  • (13) He thundered, "I will not rest" until Christian pastor Saeed Abedini is released from Iranian prison, but was cagey about what his wakefulness entailed: "everything within our power, within our voice, from the White House, from the State Department, from our government" stops conspicuously short of military intervention.
  • (14) I believe Leon Smith is the world’s best Davis Cup captain, and has been for a while.” Asked whether he wants Smith to stay, Downey replied: “I sure hope so.” Smith, 34, was cagey about his future.
  • (15) West Ham’s Slaven Bilic cagey over Charlie Austin and will not panic buy Read more That is a distinct possibility at the moment.
  • (16) Dawkins was cagey about the precise value of his bid saying only that, "it was substantially higher than the estimate but substantially lower than the final price."
  • (17) Whichever side you’re on, it’s hard to see Owen Smith or Jeremy Corbyn as latterday Athenians; their first debate in Cardiff on Thursday night revealed some substantial, outward-looking argument, but also an awful lot of cagey positioning and irritable repudiation of the other’s views, record and ability.
  • (18) Payet also provided the moment of a cagey first quarter with a slick drag-back nutmeg on Ross Barkley in the centre circle that had half the stadium breaking out in a kind of delighted giggle.
  • (19) Before half-time he had fumbled a cross and sliced a clearance while almost his first act after a cagey opening was to find his feet rooted and his body desperately flailing backwards as Christian Atsu looped a shot against the right-hand upright.
  • (20) Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action Read more Even amid a cagey opening there were signs that betrayed the principles that Mourinho teams have traditionally applied, with Cesc Fàbregas, deployed in an advanced midfield role, acting as the sort of luxury player that the Portuguese has never tolerated.

Clever


Definition:

  • (a.) Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert.
  • (a.) Showing skill or adroitness in the doer or former; as, a clever speech; a clever trick.
  • (a.) Having fitness, propriety, or suitableness.
  • (a.) Well-shaped; handsome.
  • (a.) Good-natured; obliging.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With such improvements, and possibly even with more clever use of therapy that already is available, wider and more complex use of liver transplantation will be possible.
  • (2) Lovely chip behind the defense on Green's goal, and almost sprung the defense with a clever free kick to play in Dempsey with time running out.
  • (3) The name suggests it is a clever but funny channel that it's OK to like.
  • (4) Rather, the two participated in a clever spoof of the show’s overly serious and die-hard tone.
  • (5) That’s plain wrong, has been for decades, and a clever chap like Nelson should know it.
  • (6) A clever political strategy would be to exploit these tensions.
  • (7) James Cleverly, MP for Braintree, who supported Johnson’s aborted leadership bid before backing May, said joking about him risked undermining the foreign secretary.
  • (8) But she describes Manafort as a “clever hire” by Trump.
  • (9) The destruction of climate science expertise in Australia’s premier research organisation is not clever, innovative, or agile.
  • (10) There they are, drinking again.’” Harper is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey That scorn appears to have interrupted the clever student’s journey to the top of the class.
  • (11) It then sought to change the story with those clever, but frankly odd,, half-poetic public apologies.
  • (12) Fulham were helped by United being forced into a trio of substitutions at the interval, as Rafael succumbed to a twisted ankle, Cleverly had double vision and Evans had back trouble.
  • (13) Long Word... Long Word... Blah Blah Blah... I’m So Clever is at the Pleasance Courtyard, to 30 August JOE LYCETT Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joe Lycett.
  • (14) She is fantastically clever and when she's on about ideas she is astonishing.
  • (15) He strikes me more as a clever man - oh, very clever - than a necessarily charming man; for there's a distance, an aloofness.
  • (16) He is an innately optimistic character as well as a clever one, and a man who needs to persuade his party not to despair.
  • (17) It may be hard to tell in the latest show from the outrageously talented Meow Meow, a woman whose divinely sung and cleverly structured shows often give the impression of organised chaos.
  • (18) The PPP was one of those oh-so-clever schemes devised by government supposedly to attract private sector investment for infrastructure and avoiding such schemes ending up on the government's balance sheet.
  • (19) As I wrote then: "This clever, comprehensive-educated granddaughter of a miner served in government for more than a decade but retained the ability to speak human – a rare quality among New Labour politicians."
  • (20) That left her accelerating towards Karen Bardsley but, reacting well to the danger, Bardsley raced off her line, cleverly narrowing the angle.

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