Tricky vs Trickery - What's the difference?
tricky | trickery |
hard to deal with, complicated
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adept at using deception
(uncountable) Deception or underhanded behavior.
* 1852 , , Bleak House , ch. 1:
(uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture.
(uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
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(countable) An instance of deception, underhanded behavior, dressing up, imposture, artifice, etc.
* 1809 , , Knickerbocker's History of New York , ch. 47:
* 1898 , , "See UP" in Stories in Light and Shadow :
As an adjective tricky
is hard to deal with, complicated.As a noun trickery is
(uncountable) deception or underhanded behavior.tricky
English
Adjective
(er)- They were in a tricky situation.
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- A tricky salesman can sell anything.
See also
* sneakytrickery
English
Noun
(trickeries)- In trickery , evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.
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- [H]e did not wrap his rugged subject in silks and ermines, and other sickly trickeries of phrase.
- The miners found diversions even in his alleged frauds and trickeries . . . and were fond of relating with great gusto his evasion of the Foreign Miners' Tax.