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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
tricksy
    adj 1: marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for
           wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a
           slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a
           wily old attorney" [syn: crafty, cunning, dodgy,
           foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy,
           tricky, wily]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Tricksy \Trick"sy\, a. [From Trick.]
   Exhibiting artfulness; trickish. "My tricksy spirit!" --Shak.
   [1913 Webster]

         he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century
         passed for state wisdom.                 --Coleridge.
   [1913 Webster]

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