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tricksiness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of tricksiness

a natural disposition for playful behavior

the novelist has a known weakness for literary tricksiness, so the reader should be skeptical of the narrator's trustworthiness

Synonyms of tricksiness

coltishness, espièglerie, friskiness, impishness, larkiness, mischief, mischievousness, playfulness, prankishness, sportfulness, sportiveness

Words Related to tricksiness

coyness, kittenishness

archness, devilment, devilry (or deviltry), hob, rascality, roguishness, waggery

devilishness, diabolicalness, knavery

energy, liveliness, spiritedness, sprightliness, spunkiness, vivaciousness, vivacity

gaiety (also gayety), jocularity, jocundity, lightheartedness, mirthfulness, whimsicality

Near Antonyms of tricksiness

graveness, grimness, serious-mindedness, seriousness, solemnity, solemnness, sternness

priggishness, starchiness, stuffiness

constraint, restraint, self-control

Antonyms of tricksiness

earnestness, soberness, sobersidedness

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