tricksy

• House-Mastiff seeing itself neglected, driven to its hutch, for a tricksy Ape dressed out in ribbons, who gets favor in the drawing-room George, I perceive by the very State-Papers, George and his English Lords have a provoking slighting tone towards Friedrich Wilhelm; they answer his violent convictions, and thoroughgoing rapid proposals, by brief official negation, with an air of superiority,--traces of, a polite sneer perceptible, occasionally. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
• They are clever, crafty and tricksy - but deeply unwise, and unwilling to think outside their little old 1930s box. —  Maggie's Farm
• Further, since it depends on unknowable pixie whims, we cannot use pixies to reliably predict the outcome of future experiments -- the pixies may by tired, or petulant, or merely tricksy, as pixies are traditionally said to be. —  Planet Atheism
• But viewers will at first be led to believe that the friar is a tricksy, brooding character with more on his mind than simply helping the battle against the Sheriff of Nottingham. —  The Lone Voice
• In reality most people wear motley all day long and the fairy powers are leprechauns, tricksy, irresponsible sprites, willing enough to make merry with those who can laugh with them; but players of all Puck's tricks on "wisest aunts telling saddest tales I sometimes think that it is Ascher's chivalry, his fine knightliness, which has killed his sense of humour. —  Gossamer 1915

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