trickish
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Although a trifle too trickish and studied to rank as Pinter's best work, it is quite good enough to dominate the Broadway scene, and probably will not be surpassed in dramatic quality this season.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since the trickish fellow found the way to undo his chain, ma’am, he watches every thing that is done in the kitchen.
From Minnie's Pet Monkey by Madeline Leslie
The prosecution of the war by the former ministry was savage and horrid; since which it has been mean, trickish, and delusive.
From Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): the American Crisis by Moncure Daniel Conway
So true is this of his intercourse with the officers of the college, as well as with others, that he was never even suspected of anything low or trickish....
From Famous American Statesmen by Sarah Knowles Bolton
The plantation was productive, the old fellow had gathered many a fine crop, and for his failure to pay rent there could be no excuse, except the apologies devised by his own trickish invention.
From An Arkansas Planter by Opie Percival Read
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