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Tricksy

Tricksy \Trick"sy\, a. [From Trick.] Exhibiting artfulness; trickish. ``My tricksy spirit!''
--Shak.

he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for state wisdom.
--Coleridge.

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tricksy

a. Inclined to trickery; sneaky, devious.

WordNet
tricksy
  1. adj. marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dik"; "a wily old attorney" [syn: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricky, wily]

  2. [also: tricksiest, tricksier]

Usage examples of "tricksy".

Or tricksy spirits sent by the Breakers to lure him and lull him into failure.

G ood Luck, she is never a lady, But the cursedest quean alive, Tricksy, wincing, and jady -Kittle to lead or drive.

Fafhrd loved me the more, but the Mouser was tricksier and measured his drinks more carefully—and mine.

Ay, I was naught but a stripling then, and the mare the tricksiest piece—well, to think you’d remember!