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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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Dictionary Results for tricky:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

tricky
    adj 1: not to be trusted; "how extraordinarily slippery a liar
           the camera is"- James Agee [syn: slippery, tricky]
    2: having concealed difficulty; "a catchy question"; "a tricky
       recipe to follow" [syn: catchy, tricky]
    3: 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

Tricky \Trick"y\, a.
   Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.
   [1913 Webster]

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