tricksy
adjective
Also given to tricks; mischievous; playful; prankish.
tricksiness
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a word derived from
tricksy.
Example Sentences
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Why all the square pegs, sweeping changes and subsequent soft-skill tricksiness to keep everyone happy?
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
There were other, more minimal examples of that kind of tricksiness, like when the bear is attacking Thorenson on the ground.
From The Verge ● Feb. 28, 2018
Despite the richness of its invention and virtuosic tricksiness, “Gnomon” is probably a bit too long.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2018
The task for its architects, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, is to make its multiple unusualness manifest, without resort to tricksiness or funny colours.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2014
I suppose this appealed immensely to Ellaline's love of intrigue and kittenish tricksiness generally.
From Set in Silver by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
