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Definition of tricky in English: trickyadjectivetrickiest, trickier ˈtrɪkiˈtrɪki 1(of a task, problem, etc.) requiring care and skill because difficult or awkward. applying eyeliner can be a tricky business the radio is tricky to operate Example sentencesExamples - The Town Hall car park area remains a tricky and highly sensitive area for development.
- It was very tricky business, as one wrong move would result in the loss of the fish.
- Not so fast, you have got to find a decent one first and that can be a tricky old business.
- Gaining recognition for climbing would appear, at first sight, to be a tricky business.
- With some cars this is a relatively simple DIY task, in others it is quite tricky and best done by a garage.
- It's a tricky business producing a film based on a book that your audience already has a solid affinity with.
- The horribly tricky task for the judges in such situations is to avoid the court being used as a weapon in a revenge mission.
- He nodded his head while avoiding her tender gaze, a tricky task with a child so small.
- The students use this technique today to master the most complex and tricky footwork.
- The markup construction was tricky and required compromises in several places.
- He has the tricky task of deciding where the side will play in the future.
- Completing one set of objectives or the other isn't too hard, but completing them both is a tricky task.
- This means learning the tricky skill of being apart but yet being part of the action.
- The lack of crossings, lights, pavements and bridges make it tricky business.
- Whilst tempting, growing potatoes in a raised bed is tricky because they are difficult to dig out.
- Making a historical drama that purports to be based on truth is a tricky business.
- The art of communication is a tricky business, but not half as tricky as the communication of art.
- If the exact financial scale of the problem is a little tricky to assess, so too is the legal position.
- There was also plenty of torque to take care of those more tricky roads.
- Euthanasia is a very tricky subject and one that should be handled with extreme care.
Synonyms difficult, awkward, problematic, delicate, ticklish, sensitive, touchy, risky, uncertain, precarious, touch-and-go thorny, knotty, involved, complex, complicated, convoluted vexed embarrassing informal sticky, dicey, hairy North American informal gnarly 2Deceitful or crafty. I wouldn't trust her—she's tricky Example sentencesExamples - The tricky winger immediately started to cause Portadown problems and clearly lifted the Newry attack.
- The early minutes of the second half saw more great skills from Thompson and tricky runs from Sovago.
- Ryan Giggs is not as tricky but he has great pace, skill and overall quality.
- Having been booked earlier for an altercation with McMillan, the tricky winger was sent off.
Synonyms cunning, crafty, wily, artful, guileful, devious, scheming, sly, slippery, slick, deceitful, deceptive, duplicitous, dishonest, disingenuous, Machiavellian North American snide informal foxy, shifty British informal fly, dodgy South African informal slim Australian/New Zealand informal shonky rare subtle, carny
Derivatives adverb ˈtrɪkɪliˈtrɪkəli The concerto demands athletic power from the soloist as he negotiates trickily angular and motoric passages, particularly in the last movement. Example sentencesExamples - With these techniques Johnson effectively but trickily conveys his ironic and multivocal vision and makes his narrator successfully write himself into the text.
- The spring night is dark; sudden rain lashes the windshield of the car; dense fog comes and goes, swirling trickily up from nowhere.
- He tells a fairly simple story as trickily, as cleverly as possible.
- Customs officers, for example, I find trickily unpredictable.
noun ˈtrɪkɪnəsˈtrɪkinəs The conspiracy theorists, however, interpret it as a bit of trickiness. Example sentencesExamples - But unlike Mr. Jack I was neither a doctor nor a surgeon, and thus I was unequipped to deal with the trickiness of human anatomy.
- One of the many marvelous things about American Splendor is that the extraordinary trickiness of the film's structure is truly the only way to tell its story.
- But just the same, I love photography's trickiness - which it can't help, or rather, our uncertain perception of it - which we can't help.
- Smith's technique makes the structural trickiness of the script work - in the hands of a lesser performer, Shakespeare's Will would not be as effective a drama.
Rhymes brickie, Dickie, hickey, icky, mickey, Nicky, picky, quickie, rickey, Rikki, sickie, sticky, Vicky Definition of tricky in US English: trickyadjectiveˈtrikēˈtrɪki 1(of a task, problem, or situation) requiring care and skill because difficult or awkward. applying eyeliner can be a tricky business some things are very tricky to explain Example sentencesExamples - There was also plenty of torque to take care of those more tricky roads.
- This means learning the tricky skill of being apart but yet being part of the action.
- The students use this technique today to master the most complex and tricky footwork.
- He has the tricky task of deciding where the side will play in the future.
- Gaining recognition for climbing would appear, at first sight, to be a tricky business.
- The lack of crossings, lights, pavements and bridges make it tricky business.
- Whilst tempting, growing potatoes in a raised bed is tricky because they are difficult to dig out.
- It's a tricky business producing a film based on a book that your audience already has a solid affinity with.
- The markup construction was tricky and required compromises in several places.
- If the exact financial scale of the problem is a little tricky to assess, so too is the legal position.
- Completing one set of objectives or the other isn't too hard, but completing them both is a tricky task.
- Not so fast, you have got to find a decent one first and that can be a tricky old business.
- Euthanasia is a very tricky subject and one that should be handled with extreme care.
- Making a historical drama that purports to be based on truth is a tricky business.
- He nodded his head while avoiding her tender gaze, a tricky task with a child so small.
- The horribly tricky task for the judges in such situations is to avoid the court being used as a weapon in a revenge mission.
- It was very tricky business, as one wrong move would result in the loss of the fish.
- With some cars this is a relatively simple DIY task, in others it is quite tricky and best done by a garage.
- The art of communication is a tricky business, but not half as tricky as the communication of art.
- The Town Hall car park area remains a tricky and highly sensitive area for development.
Synonyms difficult, awkward, problematic, delicate, ticklish, sensitive, touchy, risky, uncertain, precarious, touch-and-go - 1.1 (of a person or act) deceitful, crafty, or skillful.
Example sentencesExamples - Having been booked earlier for an altercation with McMillan, the tricky winger was sent off.
- Ryan Giggs is not as tricky but he has great pace, skill and overall quality.
- The early minutes of the second half saw more great skills from Thompson and tricky runs from Sovago.
- The tricky winger immediately started to cause Portadown problems and clearly lifted the Newry attack.
Synonyms cunning, crafty, wily, artful, guileful, devious, scheming, sly, slippery, slick, deceitful, deceptive, duplicitous, dishonest, disingenuous, machiavellian
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