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How to use tricksy in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word tricksy? Here are some examples.

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I cannot discern anything tricksy in his demeanour, I really do believe that he is sincere.
Also, a pair of tricksy pop-out cupholders hide behind a flimsy bit of plastic on the passenger side.
It is also a thing of beauty, with typography that's clever without being tricksy, saliva-inducing photography and cute little naif drawings.
Now there's a tricksy little topic not likely to raise many smiles should it happen to pop up in conversation.
The second paper was again a little tricksy in places, but overall nicer than the first one.
I'd rather thought this might happen, because one or two of the words were tricksy, to say the least.
Flashbacks, dream sequences and supernatural intervention merge into a miasma of disjointed, tricksy effects.
I found a different route, using tricksy short-cuts, through Bradford, which I'd known since childhood.
Personally, I find that the sensationalist presentation, tricksy camera work and scary music gets in the way of any profound analysis.
Out went the tacky, big-budget stage sets and tricksy technology and in came rock 'n' roll again.
Strachan, on the other hand, was regarded as tricksy enough to outmanoeuvre his dour Aberdeen and Manchester United manager.
Someone tricksy has been taking pictures of the car he drives in the forthcoming movie.
Of two works by David Parsons, Shining Star is a be-happy piece for dancers in angelic white, against tricksy banks of lights.
Our traditional institutions of learning are under threat from these nasty, tricksy cheats.
On the other hand, Jaki is clearly present in the rhythms which are straightforward but tricksy, deliberate but playful.
It is immensely clever, perhaps overly tricksy for some tastes and, most importantly, extraordinarily brilliant.
Bawer is quite plainly a talented writer, but he is also tricksy, and he has a tendency to overload what are often perfectly valid points with debatable stylistic flourishes.
LaBute gives the proceedings an unsettling prejudice-exposing layer of dubiety because the revenant is a tricksy Iago-like wannabe dramatist.
It's pretty middling stuff, with a tricksy mannerism of freeze-framing the action at the end of a scene, which makes it look like a dodgy DVD pressing.
Then again, it might just be a tricksy way of showing-off a bit.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The king is only, or he appears, tricksy because you compel him to wind and counterplot.
Was it the tricksy play of the moon among the clouds, or did a shade of disappointment flit across her face?
The answering melody, with more of sentiment, though always in graceful swing with tricksy attendant figures, has a longer song.
A film for you to luxuriate in as every delightful, tricksy moment is spun out for your enjoyment.
I've heard tell of them all my life, I know, and of their tricksy ways.
But for him Ayala would run about as though she were a tricksy Ariel.
Art is a tricksy quantity and like quicksilver is ever mobile.
Still the beaver fair was enlivened by music and tricksy gambols.
The sneaky tricksy komodo dragon works on the same 10-second time delay the ITV should have used for Kanye West's notorious Brits performance.
Brolin and Olsen embolden thinly sketched protagonists as best they can while the tricksy plot uncoils around them.
Then he remembered that it was about the time of the new moon, and if that tricksy orb was in one of its stages of visibility it had set long before.
It's tricksy and rarely flattering, so approach with caution.
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