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1
requiring exceptional skill or caution in performance or handling
- a tricky musical passage for the woodwind section
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2
clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means
- he's a tricky one, so be careful when dealing with him
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- crooked,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- dishonest,
- fraudulent,
- insinuating,
- knavish,
- Machiavellian,
- oblique,
- serpentine,
- shady,
- shifty,
- slippery,
- sneaky,
- treacherous,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unscrupulous
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The first known use of tricky was in 1786
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