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Definition of Tricky
1. Adjective. Not to be trusted. "How extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is"
Similar to: Untrustworthy, Untrusty
Derivative terms: Slipperiness, Trickiness
2. Adjective. Having concealed difficulty. "A tricky recipe to follow"
3. Adjective. Marked by skill in deception. "A wily old attorney"
Similar to: Artful
Derivative terms: Craft, Craftiness, Dodge, Fox, Foxiness, Slickness, Slickness, Slyness, Trick, Trick, Trickiness, Wile, Wiliness
Definition of Tricky
1. a. Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.
Definition of Tricky
1. Adjective. hard to deal with, complicated ¹
2. Adjective. adept at using deception ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tricky
1. characterized by deception [adj TRICKIER, TRICKIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tricky
Literary usage of Tricky
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Twenty-five Years a Parson in the Wild West: Being the Experience of Parson by John Brown, Ralph Riley (1896)
"tricky FELLOWS. rI "HEY were tricky dogs also, those Texas -*- cowboys. If I rode
with them on the prairies, they would be sure to come to rivers where we ..."
2. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1900)
"tricky. By GEORGE F. UNDERBILL. |HE had been called 'tricky' in the nursery, and
the name had stuck to her, in the schoolroom and in after-life, ..."
3. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"tricky. (Perhaps of American origin.) 1783 Ran away, a Negro Man, named Pompey,
very artful and shi/ty.—Maryland Journal, Feb. 18. —Mass. Spy, April 28. ..."
4. King's Mountain and Its Heroes: History of the Battle of King's Mountain by Lyman Copeland Draper, Anthony Allaire (1881)
"Crowing of David Knox.— Cornwallis fees to South Carolina, with the Imaginary
Mountaineers in Pursuit.—A tricky Guide Misleading the Retiring Troops. ..."
5. Life and Labour in the Far, Far West: Being Notes of a Tour in the Western by William Henry Barneby (1884)
"... Discussion, and Decision —Hell's Gate—Boston Bars—Gold-dust—Back at Yale—A
tricky Engine-driver—Hotels in British Columbia—Agriculture and Labour in ..."
6. Life and Letters of Catharine M. Sedgwick by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Mary Elizabeth Dewey (1871)
"It is enough to have public officers defaulters, and our states and merchants
bankrupts, without having our statesmen as tricky as tin- peddlers. ..."
7. The Singing of the Future by David Ffrangcon-Davies, David Thomas Ffrangcon- Davies (1905)
"CHAPTER III STYLE (CONTINUED) Style, straightforward and spontaneous, ideal,
real, spiritual, honest, unselfish, not tricky, lasting, courageous, ..."
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