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Definition of tricksy in English: tricksyadjectivetricksier, tricksiest ˈtrɪksiˈtrɪksi 1Playful or mischievous. Example sentencesExamples - Bawer is quite plainly a talented writer, but he is also tricksy, and he has a tendency to overload what are often perfectly valid points with debatable stylistic flourishes.
- Strachan, on the other hand, was regarded as tricksy enough to outmanoeuvre his dour Aberdeen and Manchester United manager.
- Someone tricksy has been taking pictures of the car he drives in the forthcoming movie.
- Our traditional institutions of learning are under threat from these nasty, tricksy cheats.
- But Gray is a tricksy fellow and might be fibbing.
Synonyms frisky, jolly, fun-loving, lively, full of fun, high-spirited, spirited, in high spirits, exuberant, perky, skittish, coltish, kittenish - 1.1 Ingenious, intricate, or complicated.
Example sentencesExamples - On the other hand, Jaki is clearly present in the rhythms which are straightforward but tricksy, deliberate but playful.
- It is immensely clever, perhaps overly tricksy for some tastes and, most importantly, extraordinarily brilliant.
- Also, a pair of tricksy pop-out cupholders hide behind a flimsy bit of plastic on the passenger side.
- It is also a thing of beauty, with typography that's clever without being tricksy, saliva-inducing photography and cute little naif drawings.
- And do not try anything tricksy if you don't need to.
- Partly it is through a fear of actually engaging with the tricksy arguments themselves: it is altogether easier to attack the individual - to take out the man, rather than the ball, as it were.
- Then again, it might just be a tricksy way of showing-off a bit.
- They think up tricksy names, they might even hire an expensive designer to do them a label, and when it comes to the end, their wine is made in the same winery as all their rivals' wines.
- Now there's a tricksy little topic not likely to raise many smiles should it happen to pop up in conversation.
- It's pretty middling stuff, with a tricksy mannerism of freeze-framing the action at the end of a scene, which makes it look like a dodgy DVD pressing.
- Sure, the profile questions were laboured and tricksy, but they either gave way to genuine honesty or exposed pretension; you could just tell when a person was straining to be winsome.
- The second paper was again a little tricksy in places, but overall nicer than the first one.
- I'd rather thought this might happen, because one or two of the words were tricksy, to say the least.
- Flashbacks, dream sequences and supernatural intervention merge into a miasma of disjointed, tricksy effects.
- I found a different route, using tricksy short-cuts, through Bradford, which I'd known since childhood.
- It's all well-played by the Northern Sinfonia under James Sinclair, and the music is sprightly and often engaging, but a lot of it is tricksy stuff, full of little efforts at musical humour or attention grabbing.
- The Maltings' interior design is obviously not to the judge's taste: it is said to be ‘entirely contrived, with a tricksy decor strong on salvaged somewhat quirky junk’.
- Personally, I find that the sensationalist presentation, tricksy camera work and scary music gets in the way of any profound analysis.
- Out went the tacky, big-budget stage sets and tricksy technology and in came rock 'n' roll again.
- It also comes with a set of tricksy windscreen wipers.
Synonyms tidy, neat and tidy, as neat as a new pin, orderly, well ordered, in order, in good order, well kept, shipshape, shipshape and bristol fashion, in apple-pie order, immaculate, spick and span, uncluttered, straight, trim, spruce
Derivatives adverb J has configured everything tricksily, and apparently my home account goes through my work email account, which would have been good to realise last week. Example sentencesExamples - He's capable of martial arts tricks, but he's at home in the depths of the enemy's defenses, plumbing into their secrets and tricksily discovering their greatest secrets.
- How can the people involved in these movies get out of bed in the morning, facing the mountains of tricksily demanding work that they have assigned themselves?
- The songs are tricksily stylish pop that veers gleefully with unexpected time changes, and a charming fifties swing.
- It is tricksily served on a wooden board in a Kilner jar; beneath a blob of goose fat on top of which is some beautifully dressed posh salad, alongside bowls of pickles and a rich plum chutney.
noun I had to settle for a mocked up photo of the man - plus a whole lot of artificial shadow tricksiness. Example sentencesExamples - It seems at times as if Malkani is enjoying his linguistic tricksiness so much he just can't stop himself.
- The shifting set apart, the director Joe Dowling eschews any tricksiness, instead concentrating on making the most of his talented cast.
- I found them both coherent, lively and strange, though not without a touch of that mannered tricksiness you so often find in physical theatre.
Definition of tricksy in US English: tricksyadjectiveˈtrɪksiˈtriksē 1(of a person) playful or mischievous. Example sentencesExamples - Bawer is quite plainly a talented writer, but he is also tricksy, and he has a tendency to overload what are often perfectly valid points with debatable stylistic flourishes.
- Strachan, on the other hand, was regarded as tricksy enough to outmanoeuvre his dour Aberdeen and Manchester United manager.
- Someone tricksy has been taking pictures of the car he drives in the forthcoming movie.
- Our traditional institutions of learning are under threat from these nasty, tricksy cheats.
- But Gray is a tricksy fellow and might be fibbing.
Synonyms frisky, jolly, fun-loving, lively, full of fun, high-spirited, spirited, in high spirits, exuberant, perky, skittish, coltish, kittenish - 1.1 Clever in an ingenious or deceptive way.
a typically tricksy beginning to his latest venture Example sentencesExamples - I found a different route, using tricksy short-cuts, through Bradford, which I'd known since childhood.
- The Maltings' interior design is obviously not to the judge's taste: it is said to be ‘entirely contrived, with a tricksy decor strong on salvaged somewhat quirky junk’.
- Partly it is through a fear of actually engaging with the tricksy arguments themselves: it is altogether easier to attack the individual - to take out the man, rather than the ball, as it were.
- It is also a thing of beauty, with typography that's clever without being tricksy, saliva-inducing photography and cute little naif drawings.
- It's pretty middling stuff, with a tricksy mannerism of freeze-framing the action at the end of a scene, which makes it look like a dodgy DVD pressing.
- I'd rather thought this might happen, because one or two of the words were tricksy, to say the least.
- The second paper was again a little tricksy in places, but overall nicer than the first one.
- Sure, the profile questions were laboured and tricksy, but they either gave way to genuine honesty or exposed pretension; you could just tell when a person was straining to be winsome.
- And do not try anything tricksy if you don't need to.
- Flashbacks, dream sequences and supernatural intervention merge into a miasma of disjointed, tricksy effects.
- It is immensely clever, perhaps overly tricksy for some tastes and, most importantly, extraordinarily brilliant.
- Also, a pair of tricksy pop-out cupholders hide behind a flimsy bit of plastic on the passenger side.
- Personally, I find that the sensationalist presentation, tricksy camera work and scary music gets in the way of any profound analysis.
- Now there's a tricksy little topic not likely to raise many smiles should it happen to pop up in conversation.
- On the other hand, Jaki is clearly present in the rhythms which are straightforward but tricksy, deliberate but playful.
- It's all well-played by the Northern Sinfonia under James Sinclair, and the music is sprightly and often engaging, but a lot of it is tricksy stuff, full of little efforts at musical humour or attention grabbing.
- Out went the tacky, big-budget stage sets and tricksy technology and in came rock 'n' roll again.
- They think up tricksy names, they might even hire an expensive designer to do them a label, and when it comes to the end, their wine is made in the same winery as all their rivals' wines.
- Then again, it might just be a tricksy way of showing-off a bit.
- It also comes with a set of tricksy windscreen wipers.
Synonyms tidy, neat and tidy, as neat as a new pin, orderly, well ordered, in order, in good order, well kept, shipshape, shipshape and bristol fashion, in apple-pie order, immaculate, spick and span, uncluttered, straight, trim, spruce
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