cagey

cagey
    adj 1: showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with
           others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound" [syn:
           {cagey}, {cagy}, {canny}, {clever}]
    2: characterized by great caution and wariness; "a cagey
       avoidance of a definite answer"; "chary of the risks
       involved"; "a chary investor" [syn: {cagey}, {cagy}, {chary}]
    

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