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
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 Conway, Moncure Daniel
Gathering his slight person together, P. Sybarite crouched, quivered, jumped for glory and the Saints—and all but brained himself on that impish and trickish grating.
From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Brown, Arthur William
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 Bolton, Sarah Knowles
Huckster, huk′stėr, n. a retailer of smallwares, a hawker or pedlar: a mean, trickish fellow:—fem.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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