tricky
adjective
given to or characterized by deceitful tricks; crafty; wily.
trickily
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a word derived from
tricky.
Example Sentences
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Serpell’s engagement with grief grows in its layering as Wayne slips trickily into the first person previously occupied by Cassandra.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
Also trickily photographic, if more personal, are Cecilia Paredes’s self portraits.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022
In 1993, a neighbor named Kay Rood, who ran a nearby framing shop, began organizing neighbors to demand — and, more trickily, find funding for — a park renovation.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2021
Instead, Shirley centers the author’s artistic brilliance, Dickinson revels in the poet’s real creative confidence, The Great trickily extricates the contradictions of the Enlightened despot’s position.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 4, 2020
It turned out to be not a book at all but a wooden box trickily carved and painted to look like a calf-bound volume.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
