Tricky

3 definitions found

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

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  tricky
       adj 1: not to be trusted; "how extraordinarily slippery a liar the
              camera is"- James Agee; "they called Reagan the teflon
              president because mud never stuck to him" [syn: {slippery},
               {teflon}]
       2: having concealed difficulty; "a catchy question"; "a tricky
          recipe to follow" [syn: {catchy}]
       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 Dik"; "a
          wily old attorney" [syn: {crafty}, {cunning}, {dodgy}, {foxy},
           {guileful}, {knavish}, {slick}, {sly}, {tricksy}, {wily}]
       [also: {trickiest}, {trickier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  183 Moby Thesaurus words for "tricky":
     Herculean, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, abstruse, acute,
     ambidextrous, amoral, arch, arduous, artful, astute, awkward,
     beguiling, brutal, cagey, calculating, canny, catchy, cheating,
     chiseling, clever, collusive, complex, complicated, conscienceless,
     corrupt, corrupted, covinous, crafty, criminal, critical, crooked,
     cunning, cute, dark, debatable, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive,
     deep, deep-laid, delicate, delusive, delusory, demanding,
     designing, devious, difficile, difficult, diplomatic, dishonest,
     dishonorable, double, double-dealing, doubtful, dubious,
     duplicitous, evasive, exacting, fallacious, false, falsehearted,
     feline, felonious, finagling, fishy, formidable, foxy, fraudulent,
     furtive, guileful, hairy, hallucinatory, hard, hard-earned,
     hard-fought, hazardous, iffy, ill-got, ill-gotten, illusive,
     illusory, immoral, indirect, ingenious, insidious, intricate,
     inventive, jawbreaking, knotted, knotty, knowing, laborious, mean,
     misleading, no picnic, not easy, not kosher, operose, pawky,
     perfidious, playful, politic, prankish, pranksome, pranky,
     precarious, questionable, quirky, ready, resourceful, rigorous,
     risky, rocky, roguish, rotten, rough, rugged, scheming, sensitive,
     serpentine, set with thorns, severe, shady, shameless, sharp,
     shifty, shrewd, sinister, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky,
     sneaky, sophistical, spiny, sportive, stealthy, steep, sticky,
     strategic, strenuous, subtile, subtle, supple, surreptitious,
     suspicious, tactical, thorny, ticklish, toilsome, touch-and-go,
     touchy, tough, treacherous, trick, trickish, tricksy, two-faced,
     uncertain, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable,
     undependable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unfair, unjust,
     unprincipled, unsavory, unscrupulous, unsportsmanlike,
     unstraightforward, uphill, vulpine, waggish, wary, wicked, wily,
     without remorse, without shame