tricksy
Americanadjective
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Also given to tricks; mischievous; playful; prankish.
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difficult to handle or deal with.
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Archaic. tricky; crafty; wily.
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Archaic. fashionably trim; spruce; smart.
adjective
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playing tricks habitually; mischievous
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crafty or difficult to deal with
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archaic well-dressed; spruce; smart
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Psychological coherence takes a back seat to tricksy plotting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2022
“Easy Feedback Form” even appeared in the credits of 2021’s hit collectible card game Inscryption — a means for developer Daniel Mullins to fine-tune the tricksy, playfully meta title.
From The Verge ● Jun. 29, 2022
She keeps the Polaroid picture of herself and her friends, taken by a tricksy hitchhiker in the 1974 film, on her dashboard visor.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2022
Besides being a deliciously sardonic tale of reversals and comeuppance, “Ezra Slef” pays deft homage to Nabokov, Borges, Flann O’Brien and numerous other tricksy writers.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2021
But it’s in Paradise Lost that he’s to be found in properly blistering form—first as the defeated general rallying his troops in hell, and later as the tricksy serpent in the Garden of Eden.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
That book, comprising a long poem by John Shade and a massive set of end notes by Professor Charles Kinbote, is perhaps the trickiest, or tricksiest, work of modern literature.
From Washington Post ● May 27, 2015
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