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Definition of Trickily
1. Adverb. In an artful manner. "Had ever circumstances conspired so cunningly?"
Partainyms: Artful, Crafty, Cunning, Foxy, Knavish, Sly, Tricky
Definition of Trickily
1. Adverb. In a tricky manner ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trickily
1. in a tricky manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trickily
Literary usage of Trickily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson (1911)
"e. a member of the Grocers' Guild, one of the great livery companies. Behave trickily.
A lout play, author unknown. Heywood's // you know not me, ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1898)
"JOHNSON drove that slow bowler for sixteen three times running, and then put him
trickily to short leg tor eight. Look, there 's the thousand going up now. ..."
3. Europe Since 1815 by Charles Downer Hazen (1910)
"... would be a sweet revenge, and to throw military glory over his newly and
trickily won throne would be a manifest advantage and a real pleasure. ..."
4. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1861)
"Next to this motive principle is his desire to make money dishonestly, trickily,
meanly, and shabbily. По has acted on it in all his relations •with the ..."
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