My trickſey Spirit.
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Tricksy
//ˈtɹɪksiː//
Synonyms for "tricksy" (116 found)
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Translations
4 translations across 2 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- лъжлив adj (inclined to trickery, devious)
- шеговит adj (inclined to trickery, devious)
Māori
2 entries- māminga adj (inclined to trickery, devious)
- tinihanga adj (inclined to trickery, devious)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
There will succeed, therefore, in my opinion, and that too within no long time, to the rudeness and rusticity of our age, that ensnaring meretricious popularness in literature, with all the tricksy humilities of the ambitious candidates for the favourable suffrages of the judicious public, which if we do not take good care will break up and scatter before it all robustness and manly vigour of intellect, all masculine fortitude of virtue.
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A green light was flickering in his bulging eyes. ‘Masster, masster!’ he hissed. ‘Wicked! Tricksy! False!’ He spat and stretched out his long arms with white snapping fingers.
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As an experienced editor I disapprove of backflashes, foreshadowings and tricksy devices […]
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