Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of tricks; tricksy; playful.
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- adjective Full of
tricks ortrickery ;cunning .
Etymologies
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Examples
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If so, I think I will steal these tricksome methods.
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Thanks for the heads-up - submitted something - I found the tricksome bit was finding that worked when taken out of context of the blog as a whole.
Shaggy Blog Stories annawaits 2007
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Could it be that after thinking him lofty and witty in soul, his young, his artless, his tricksome mistress now thought him handsome?
Modeste Mignon 2007
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This year, although the festival was kind of weak, either their beginner's luck or my tricksome cine-askari instincts got us to some top quality cinematic billabongs.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006
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Martha — pretty, winning, mischievous, tricksome Martha — was taken ill suddenly at the Chateau de
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It seemed to play in a tricksome way; it sure was a merry thing.
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You know it's tricksome for one accustomed mainly to men's affairs ....
Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Will Levington Comfort 1905
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Ah, I've got other things as is waiting to be done nor breaking in a tricksome filly to run atween the shafts.
Six Plays Florence Henrietta Fisher Darwin 1892
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He did not impute a personality like ours to Nature, but he saw joy and rapture and play, even love, moving in everything; and sometimes headded to this delight she has in herself -- and just because the creature was not human -- a touch of elemental unmoral malice, a tricksome sportiveness like that of Puck in _Midsummer Night's Dream_.
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But the same cannot be proved of Poseidon; 5 far less of Hermes, who is identical with the Vedic Sarameyas, the rising wind, the son of Sarama the dawn, the lying, tricksome wind-god, who invented music, and conducts the souls of dead men to the house of Hades, even as his counterpart the Norse Odin rushes over the tree-tops leading the host of the departed.
Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology 1872
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