Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Given to or characterized by trickery.
- adjective Requiring caution or skill.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Given to tricks; knavish; artful; sharp; shifty: as, a tricky wind; a plausible and tricky fellow.
- Playful; roguish; mischievous.
- Synonyms Artful, Sly, etc. See
cunning .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective hard to deal with, complicated
- adjective
adept at usingdeception
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having concealed difficulty
- adjective not to be trusted
- adjective marked by skill in deception
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Examples
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Wait until you hear him respond to what he called a tricky question.
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Federer moved into the fourth round for the 30th consecutive Grand Slam tournament by overcoming what he called "tricky wind" and a second-set blip to defeat No. 27 Marin Cilic of Croatia 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2.
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Whoever coined the term tricky-dicky must have sensed that the combination would hit hard.
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Some of these medications interact in tricky ways, which requires careful listening to patients and time-consuming detective work to disentangle.
Dr. Daniel Seidman: Sometimes, "Don't Just Do Something, Sit There!" Is a Good Idea Dr. Daniel Seidman 2010
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However, having domesticated animals free to roam inside a house, contact with which would require ritual cleansing, would be quite tricky from a practical point of view for Muslims who are required to pray five times a day – even though there is no actual legal prohibition of dog ownership.
Dogs: Iran's new symbol of rebellion Masoud Golsorkhi 2010
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Real estate conveyance in tricky enough here without any additional complications.
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Real estate conveyance in tricky enough here without any additional complications.
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Getting the new book written in between stuff for the one being published looks tricky from the end of it I am currently standing at.
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Real estate conveyance in tricky enough here without any additional complications.
traspasa casa 2009
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Real estate conveyance in tricky enough here without any additional complications.
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