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Definition of Trickiest
1. tricky [adj] - See also: tricky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trickiest
Literary usage of Trickiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, National Conference of Social Work (U.S.) (1896)
"Even a minie ball fails to cut the skin if it has travelled too far. Duels in
earnest are fought at short range. The trickiest politician can grow red in ..."
2. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1882)
"... in her zeal for the welfare of her seven, forgot me, and suffered me to escape.
Fortune, in her trickiest mood, planted me by Mrs. ..."
3. Virginia: A History of the People by John Esten Cooke (1883)
"... which had been so faithful to him, was conveyed away, as a man conveys away
his private estate, to two of the trickiest courtiers of the English court. ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1892)
"... to have summoned from the darkness which surrounded him — threatens to be as
unmanageable as the trickiest of familiars or the most terrible of Djinns. ..."
5. Recollections of Thirteen Presidents by John Sergeant Wise (1906)
"... but regarded Mr. Tilden as one of the trickiest and most unscrupulous politicians
in America, and while his prejudices against the Republican party were ..."
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