Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Given to or characterized by trickery.
- adj. Requiring caution or skill: a tricky recipe.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Given to tricks; knavish; artful; sharp; shifty: as, a tricky wind; a plausible and tricky fellow.
- Playful; roguish; mischievous.
- Synonyms Artful, Sly, etc. See cunning.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having concealed difficulty
- adj. not to be trusted
- adj. marked by skill in deception
Examples
“Wait until you hear him respond to what he called a tricky question.”
“Federer moved into the fourth round for the 30th consecutive Grand Slam tournament by overcoming what he called "tricky wind" and a second-set blip to defeat No. 27 Marin Cilic of Croatia 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2.”
“Whoever coined the term tricky-dicky must have sensed that the combination would hit hard.”
“Real estate conveyance in tricky enough here without any additional complications.”
“However, having domesticated animals free to roam inside a house, contact with which would require ritual cleansing, would be quite tricky from a practical point of view for Muslims who are required to pray five times a day – even though there is no actual legal prohibition of dog ownership.”
“Some of these medications interact in tricky ways, which requires careful listening to patients and time-consuming detective work to disentangle.”
“Getting the new book written in between stuff for the one being published looks tricky from the end of it I am currently standing at.”
“The only areas where public financing becomes a little tricky is in the case of independent candidates or new candidates.”
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“VimpelCom argues it has ample experience building operations in tricky places like Kyrgyzstan, while the Russian market now shares many of Italy's characteristics.”
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“I think what makes the pinning down of identity so tricky is that it is an internal process which is by its very nature completely subjective, both at the level of how we each define it and at the level of how we each experience it.”
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