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TRICKY
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Irregular inflected forms: trickier , trickiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by skill in deception
Example:
a wily old attorney
Synonyms:
crafty; cunning; dodgy; foxy; guileful; knavish; slick; sly; tricksy; tricky; wily
Classified under:
Similar:
artful (marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft)
Derivation:
trick (a cunning or deceitful action or device)
trickiness (the quality of being a slippery rascal)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having concealed difficulty
Example:
a tricky recipe to follow
Synonyms:
catchy; tricky
Classified under:
Similar:
difficult; hard (not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure)
Derivation:
trickiness (the quality of requiring skill or caution)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Not to be trusted
Example:
how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is
Synonyms:
slippery; tricky
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
untrustworthy; untrusty (not worthy of trust or belief)
Derivation:
trickiness (the quality of being a slippery rascal)
