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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : trik-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈtrɪk i |
Definition of trickiness
Origin :- 1786, "characterized by tricks," from trick (n.) + -y (2). Meaning "deceptively difficult" is from 1868. Related: Trickily; trickiness. Earlier was tricksy (1590s).
- noun indirection
- We can't prove she showed any trickiness in having you for a cousin.
- Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington
- He called upon all his shrewdness, all his trickiness of the South.
- Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
- The keenest Yankee that ever skinned a flint, cannot approach him in trickiness.
- Extract from : « The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 » by Various
- He abhorred ostentatious display and trickiness in a teacher.
- Extract from : « Heroes of Science » by M. M. Pattison Muir
- Avoid also any appearance of trickiness or sharp practice, stories of shrewd bargains, etc.
- Extract from : « The Psychology of Salesmanship » by William Walker Atkinson
- Fought for it fairly when fairness served best, and trickily when trickiness seemed more profitable.
- Extract from : « Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 3, October, 1905 » by Various
- The girl showed great powers of duplicity, all the trickiness of a parvenue, to be quite frank.
- Extract from : « Clark's Field » by Robert Herrick
- A second objection to Hobbema's method may be mentioned besides its "trickiness."
- Extract from : « A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools » by Various
- The church is "gingerly handled," but the clergy are derided for immorality, hypocrisy, and trickiness.
- Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
- Discernment, in undergoing this degradation, becomes the trickiness which seeks to equal it, without succeeding in doing so.
- Extract from : « Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4 » by Plotinos (Plotinus)
Synonyms for trickiness
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- dishonesty
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fourberie
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hanky-panky
- hocus-pocus
- improbity
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- sharp practice
- shiftiness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- underhandedness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
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