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Examples of tricky in a Sentence
The lock is tricky to open.
a tricky musical passage for the woodwind section
Recent Examples of tricky from the Web
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And for a test whose reputation lies in reliable, direct year-over-year comparisons, changing names is extra tricky.
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Even the denimheads among us would agree that white jeans are tricky.
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Mr Xi will no doubt get credit for successes. Apportioning blame for any failures will be trickier.
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For the other type of heart failure—in which the heart muscle becomes stiff and is unable to relax—treatment is trickier.
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But Bitcoin is a little trickier, because the market, and the brokers who control that market, are still very new.
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Digital media was trickier to pin down, because the Online News Association does not keep tabs on diversity.
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Others that Everytown includes on its list, though, are trickier to categorize: On Jan. 10 at about 6 p.m., a bullet likely fired from off campus hit the window of a building on a college campus in southern California.
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Others that Everytown includes on its list, though, are trickier to categorize.
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First Known Use of tricky
1786
tricky Synonyms
Synonyms
artful, beguiling, cagey (also cagy), crafty, cunning, cute, designing, devious, foxy, guileful, scheming, shrewd, slick, sly, subtle, wily;
Antonyms
Near Antonyms
obvious, open, patent, plain, public, unconcealed;
aboveboard, candid, direct, forthright, frank, honest, natural, outspoken, plainspoken, real, simple, sincere, straightforward, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious, unvarnished;
childlike, impressionable, simpleminded, unsophisticated, unworldly;
Related Words
crooked, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, fraudulent, insinuating, knavish, Machiavellian, oblique, serpentine, shady, shifty, slippery, sneaky, treacherous, underhand, underhanded, unscrupulous;
backhanded, double-dealing, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, smooth-tongued, two-faced;
circuitous, circular, roundabout;
clandestine, concealed, covert, furtive, hugger-mugger, secret, stealthy, surreptitious, undercover;
Synonym Discussion of tricky
sly, cunning, crafty, wily, tricky, foxy, artful, slick mean attaining or seeking to attain one's ends by guileful or devious means. sly implies furtiveness, lack of candor, and skill in concealing one's aims and methods.
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- a sly corporate raider
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- the cunning fox avoided the trap
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- a crafty lefthander
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- the wily fugitive escaped the posse
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- a tricky political operative
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- a foxy publicity man planting stories
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- elicited the information by artful questioning
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- slick operators selling time-sharing
TRICKY Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of tricky for English Language Learners
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: using or likely to use dishonest tricks
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: requiring skill or caution : difficult to do or deal with
TRICKY Defined for Kids
adjective
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ˈtri-kē
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Definition of tricky for Students
trickier;
trickiest
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: requiring special care and skill
- Opening the lock is tricky.
2
: likely to use tricks
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