tricksy

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tricksy - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Tricksy \Trick"sy\, a. [From Trick.]
     Exhibiting artfulness; trickish. "My tricksy spirit!" --Shak.
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           he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century
           passed for state wisdom.                 --Coleridge.
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tricksy - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  tricksy
      adj 1: 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, tricksy,
             tricky, wily]