Crossword clues for tricksy
tricksy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
a. Inclined to trickery; sneaky, devious.
WordNet
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]
[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!