dictionary definitions for "tricky"


From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  tricky
      adj 1: not to be trusted; "how extraordinarily slippery a liar
             the camera is"- James Agee [syn: slippery, tricky]
      2: having concealed difficulty; "a catchy question"; "a tricky
         recipe to follow" [syn: catchy, tricky]
      3: 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]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tricky \Trick"y\, a.
     Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.
     [1913 Webster]


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