(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.
Hesitant
Definition:
(a.) Not prompt in deciding or acting; hesitating.
(a.) Unready in speech.
Example Sentences:
(1) It appeared Dunaway and Warren Beatty had an envelope containing a card naming a previous award won by La La Land, prompting visible hesitation between the two veteran actors before Dunaway went ahead and named La La Land.
(2) Nocturia (OR 1.8) and hesitancy (OR 4.3) were found to be predictive of surgery for younger men (age range 49-55), while only nocturia (OR 2.4) was predictive among older men (age range 62-68).
(3) Maybe this will be increasing the frequency of patrols, or going to places that the Obama administration has been hesitant to go – such as actually undertaking a non-innocent passage military patrols within 12 miles of an artificial island.
(4) The standards committee report by a cross-party group of MPs said it "deplored" stings but would "not hesitate to act in such cases if wrongdoing had occurred".
(5) The Senate’s economic references committee accused Asic of missing or ignoring persistent signs of wrongdoing , characterising it as a “timid, hesitant regulator” that was too ready to uncritically accept assurances of a large institution that there were no grounds for intervention.
(6) April 16, 2014 The hesitancy – or unwillingness – of Ukrainian troops to use their weapons has produced multiple awkward confrontations with civilian crowds Wednesday, including one in Pchyolkino south of Kratamorsk, which seems still to be unresolved after an hours-long standoff.
(7) He "jumped without hesitation", said official sources quoted in the Daily Breeze.
(8) But the character – compounded of piercing sanity and existential despair, infinite hesitation and impulsive action, self-laceration and observant irony – is so multi-faceted, it is bound to coincide at some point with an actor’s particular gifts.
(9) The Clinton campaign manager also hesitated when asked if any of his staff had access to Sanders’ records, saying he was sure no one had “reached into Bernie Sanders’ data and extracted it in the way that the Bernie Sanders campaign did this week”.
(10) Their hesitations are focusing in on provisions to cut more than $800bn from the Medicaid budget by phasing out the expansion of the program that had brought healthcare coverage to an extra 11 million adult Americans.
(11) Photograph: Alamy While most politicians would have immediately sent for the drillers, Acosta hesitated.
(12) For instance; hesitant to go to a hot spring, or on a trip with friends (76%), hesitant to go to a clinic or a hospital for physical check-ups and common illness (74%), troublesome to wear special underwear (69%), inconvenient because ordinary clothes cannot be worn (56%), distressed when viewing own body (52%), unable to dress in thin clothes in hot summer season (50%), imbalance of the breasts (49%), inconvenient to participate in sports (47%).
(13) Few would hesitate to allow their data to be used in a project that could improve outcomes for everyone.
(14) But Fallon said that “ we would not hesitate ” to kill others whom the UK understands to represent active terrorist threats, all without disclosing the evidence justifying that designation or subjecting it to scrutiny.
(15) Fox himself has seemed a little hesitant on the few occasions he has answered questions about Werritty.
(16) The referring physician should not hesitate to ask for perioperative mortality statistics from the referral center.
(17) Ms Williams's name will already be familiar to many gay rights campaigners courtesy of a memorable speech on same-sex relationships, in which she applauded Jamaica's criminalisation of what her sect considers a curable aberration, a diagnosis she did not hesitate to apply to Tom Daly.
(18) Then Jake Connor, an 18-year-old who replaced Scott Grix for only his second senior appearance and looked admirably composed from the start, exploited some hesitant defence down Warrington's left to ground the ball in an Atkins tackle.
(19) A statement issued by the North Korean military warned that it would carry out "strong physical retaliations without hesitation if South Korean warmongers carry out reckless military provocations".
(20) Transsexuals who had not undergone surgery, although it had been offered to them providing they fulfilled the usual requirements, were classified into various subgroups, measured according to their attitude towards sex reassignment surgery: they were transsexuals with an unaltered wish for surgery, transsexuals who were ambivalent towards surgery (hesitating patients), and transsexuals who had relinquished their wish for surgery and lived in the initial gender role.