tricksy
IPA: trˈɪksi
adjective
- Inclined to trickery; sneaky, devious.
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Examples of "tricksy" in Sentences
- You don't need it to be tricksy or expressive of modern design—it just needs to tell the time.
- Rice is a tricksy ingredient and, just like risotto, certain rules must be observed to achieve paella nirvana.
- It's kind of tricksy to detect and could be utilized in the Farmville market to purchase some really special items.
- Since I can't get you on any 'tricksy' questions about a certain wolf or female psy - how about a question about lifespan?
- Throughout the review Enright makes Vladimir Nabokov's works out to be meaningless, merely esthetic, and "tricksy," yet, at the same time, immoral.
- The Tory leader said the Chancellor had used "tricksy" methods to cut pensioners 'income in this week's Budget, without making it clear in his statement to MPs.
- And even when we could almost imagine we're listening to some kind of tricksy neo-soul, as in 'Lock It', or an obscure offshoot of electro, as in 'Strange Crowd', there's the vocals.
- Luka, confronted by his father's ghostly double – the tricksy, hard-to-pin-down Nobodaddy – embarks on a daredevil mission to the World of Magic, determined to return with the Fire of Life itself and thereby reinvigorate his father.
- His new film is similarly tricksy: in the voiceover, it spins a fictional catastrophe that recalls Cyprus' conflicted past over honeyed footage of blue seas, rustic beehives and golden fields that wouldn't look out of place on a posh holiday programme.
- However, Carême, the "king of chefs, and chef of kings" thanks Wikipedia, piques my interest with a particularly tricksy method, in which the egg yolks and water are heated gently until thickened, and "pats of whole butter" are then whisked in to emulsify the butterfat and thin the cooked eggs.
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