caginess 

  1. 名詞
不可數名詞: 謹慎, 小心
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狡詐

    同義字詞
acumen,astuteness,canniness,clear-sightedness,foxiness,hardheadedness,intelligence,keenness,knowingness,sharpness,shrewdness,wit
artfulness,artifice,canniness,craft,craftiness,cunning,cunningness,deviousness,foxiness,guile,guilefulness,slickness,slyness,sneakiness,subtleness,subtlety,wiliness

例句

  1. Korine seems to use celebrity wariness and caginess as a model for tentative contact, and enfeebled movement.
  2. Joseph Mercurio remarked that Paterson's caginess had backfired, noting, "Now no matter who he picks, it's always going to be the choice after what happened to Kennedy.
  3. While the Socrates presented in the dialogues is often taken to be Plato's mouthpiece, Socrates' reputation for irony, his caginess regarding his own opinions in the dialogues, and his occasional absence from or minor role in the conversation serve to conceal Plato's doctrines.
  4. The presence of disconnectable personal computers in millions of homes encourages not only computer literacy and understanding of hardware -- plus a little bit of caginess -- but also a familiarity that destroys the psychological threat that the Big Computer / Big Brother days had a tendency to encourage.
  5. It didn't matter; I confessed nearly immediately. (I did make a brief hopeless attempt at caginess : "Supposing I was the person who did this . . . " Really, really pathetic.) After the obvious had been admitted to, the counselor put his hand on my shoulder and said, haltingly, "Skot . . . do you need . . . help?