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
From the very first there had been an exasperating fascination in the tricksiness with which she had—not met his advances, but—wheeled away from them.
From Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
