Usually means: Cleverly deceptive, cunning, and skillful.
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  1. tricksy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tricksy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tricksy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tricksy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tricksy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tricksy, tricksy: Wordnik
  7. tricksy: Wiktionary
  8. tricksy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. tricksy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. tricksy: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. tricksy: Dictionary.com
  12. Tricksy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. tricksy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. tricksy: Rhymezone
  15. Tricksy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. tricksy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. tricksy: Free Dictionary
  18. tricksy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. tricksy: Dictionary/thesaurus

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Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tricksy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tricksy: Encyclopedia

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  1. Tricksy: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  Inclined to trickery; sneaky, devious.

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