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单词 tricksy
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Definition of tricksy in English:

tricksy

adjectivetricksier, 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. 1.1 Ingenious, intricate, or complicated.
      a tricksy little device
      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

  • tricksily

  • 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.
  • tricksiness

  • 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.

Rhymes

dixie, pixie, Trixie
 
 

Definition of tricksy in US English:

tricksy

adjectiveˈtrɪksiˈtriksē
  • 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. 1.1 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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