tricksy
/trik-see/US // ˈtrɪk si //UK // (ˈtrɪksɪ) //
诡计多端,狡猾的,诡计多端的,狡猾
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
trick·si·er, trick·si·est.
- : Also tricksome. given to tricks; mischievous; playful; prankish.
- : difficult to handle or deal with.
- : Archaic. tricky; crafty; wily.
- : Archaic. fashionably trim; spruce; smart.
Examples
Her horns bedecked with ribbons gay, And garlanded with rosy may,—A tricksy sight.
The river is about five miles from shore to shore, and we have known it of old for a most enticing and tricksy customer.
Madame von Marwitz now looked at her and as she looked the tricksy light of malice again grew in her eye.
Wasn't I born on a Easter Sunday, wid the power to see the good people, an' the little people, an' all the tricksy tribes?
Sometimes a tricksy, half-provoked desire to break through the barricade of his stoicism tempted her.
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