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Meanings of tricksy in English

Marked by skill in deception.

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Usage of tricksy in English
1
As Gollum had once said about Frodo Baggins, it was tricksy, precious.
Doctor Sleep
2
Her smile was the tricksy play of moonlight among clouds of faëry.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
3
Special features are tricksy and precious; Sméagol steals the rest of the show.
Wired
4
Mab is a tricksy bitch, but she's good to her word.
Skin Game
5
But what could he expect from such a tricksy sprite of a girl?
The Palace of Darkened Windows
6
That Barry knows he has strayed into tricksy territory is clear from the off.
The Guardian
7
Forget engrained notions of pofaced opera or tricksy circus or combinations of the two.
The Irish Times
8
It weighs in at a mammoth 600 pages and has a tricksy parallel-universe structure.
The Guardian
9
After some tricksy rope climbing, I gained the limb of the oak at last.
Scarlet
10
She's looking after them, that elf, that sprite, that tricksy scrap, that sunshine thing.
This Freedom
11
Faeries are always underhanded and tricksy, true, and I'd overlooked that a few moments before.
Cold Days
12
She is an elegant, tricksy creature, Miss Plachecki by name, but called-forshort-"Wopsy.
Without Prejudice
13
The dug-out, the most tricksy craft afloat, rocked violently in the commotion and threatened to capsize.
The Phantom Of Bogue Holauba / 1911
14
Even the tricksy old Missouri is contributing somewhat to irrigation, but in the queerest possible way.
Southern Stories / Retold from St. Nicholas
15
The room seemed to swarm with tricksy Pucks.
The Shadow World
16
The king is only, or he appears, tricksy because you compel him to wind and counterplot.
Vittoria — Volume 6
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