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tricksy |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tricksy \Trick"sy\, a. [From {Trick}.] Exhibiting artfulness; trickish. ``My tricksy spirit!'' --Shak. he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for state wisdom. --Coleridge. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: tricksy adj : marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney" [syn: {crafty}, {cunning}, {dodgy}, {foxy}, {guileful}, {knavish}, {slick}, {sly}, {tricky}, {wily}]
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