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 can comprehend the delicacy and tricksiness of his mood when he is evolving a work of art.

From Memories of Hawthorne by Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne