tricky

[TrickĀ·y]

Having concealed difficulty

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Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.

Adjective S.
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 Dik"; "a wily old attorney"

Adjective S.
having concealed difficulty; "a catchy question"; "a tricky recipe to follow"

Adjective S.
not to be trusted; "how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is"- James Agee; "they called Reagan the teflon president because mud never stuck to him"


a.
Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.


Tricky

Trick"y , a. Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.

Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.

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Usage Examples

The thing that's tricky is sometimes the best voices - just because someone hits the big notes and sounds amazing - it doesn't necessarily mean they make the greatest artists.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.

The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting.

It's a tricky place, especially the last sector. I wasn't happy in practice. I wasn't happy with the car and I wasn't happy with myself. But I always thought there was more in the car.

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Other Usage Examples

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

When Demetrie got sick, we knew it was our responsibility to take care of her and pay her medical bills. And we embraced that. But the tricky part is, like so many families in the South, we also expected her to use a separate bathroom, to use separate utensils.

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

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