Tricky
['trɪkɪ]
Definition
(a.) Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [Colloquial.] Trickish.
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Examples
- Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing, answered Holmes thoughtfully. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- This proved to be a most knotty and intricate puzzle--tricky and evasive--always leading on and promising something, and at the last slipping away leaving the work undone. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Well, then, said Bois-Guilbert, I will speak as freely as ever did doting penitent to his ghostly father, when placed in the tricky confessional. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Yankees are a deal the most tricky, everybody knows. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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