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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. 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.