What's the difference between catchy and tricky?

Catchy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Heist features great songs, catchy, radio-friendly hooks and Macklemore's patented thought-provoking lyrics.
  • (2) McFadden, a pop star himself, is in the news this week after his new single "Just The Way You Are (Drunk at the Bar)", released by Universal Music, was roundly read as a catchy ode to date rape.
  • (3) Chaotic, yes, with a lot going on (there's sometimes a feeling you'd need a serious grounding in music technology to appreciate the denser parts), but it's full of catchy, accessible tracks, such as "Twist Your Ankal".
  • (4) Paddy was thinking big with the catchy title of More United.
  • (5) And until then, there is not much to learn here, except another reminder that just about every catchy North Korea headline should add a warning – Caution: Contents May Have Shifted During Flight.
  • (6) It can take all of a parent's ingenuity to get though a shopping trip without unwillingly picking up a tin of Barbie spaghetti shapes, a box of cereal with Lightning McQueen smirking from the front, or a bag of fruit chews with a catchy jingle.
  • (7) Like gay, it should be catchy: a potentially prolific meme.
  • (8) They were the "juggernaut leading the Korean Wave across Asia, the embodiment of the ultra-slick choreography and catchy pop songs that earned K-pop its reputation", says Robert Poole, chief executive of SomethingDrastic, a Tokyo-based Asian music promoter.
  • (9) Josh: I thought it sounded catchy, and as ducks have both bills and beaks, that seemed like a good starting point.
  • (10) "I wasn't aiming for anything too catchy …" The Coalition of Resistance in Newcastle was formed in response to the letter that Tony Benn and 73 others wrote to the Guardian protesting at the cuts.
  • (11) You've got to hand it to us baby boomers, our sociology was as catchy as our pop music.
  • (12) I shouldn’t have caused our country and shareholders such great losses just for the sake of sensationalism and eye-catchiness.
  • (13) Physicists have been so busy coming up with new ideas for experiments in the new phase of Fermilab's work that they have singularly failed to come up with a catchy name for their ultimate intensity-frontier programme.
  • (14) I worried that this would not make for as catchy a headline as I had hoped.
  • (15) To communicate with non-specialists, it may be more appropriate to focus on simpler images with catchy graphics and thematic colouring.
  • (16) Mandelson could better understand that the New Labour project, like sweeties at the check-out counter, was a catchy little number for a while but insufficiently nourishing or robust in ideas to feed the political appetite for very long.
  • (17) We're not a catchy pop tune, we're more like a great indie, Morrissey-type song."
  • (18) But, of course, that catchy La La Land song City of Stars made the title impossible to read without mentally crooning like Ryan Gosling.
  • (19) Almost two months after a portly 34-year-old armed with a catchy chorus and a comical line in choreography soared to the top of the British pop charts, the world doesn't appear to have had its fill of Gangnam Style .
  • (20) The place is "a slow-motion Chernobyl", according to campaigners from Greenpeace, a group which has a reputation for never missing out on the catchy phrase.

Tricky


Definition:

  • (a.) Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Consoles are even more widespread in Japan, of course, but for many, finding the time and space to play in comfort is tricky.
  • (2) For an industry built on selling ersatz rebellion to teenagers, finding the moral high ground was always going to be tricky.
  • (3) Updated at 2.53pm GMT 2.48pm GMT 'Tricky job, well done' - IoD Graeme Leach , chief economist at the Institute of Directors, said: This was a tricky job, well done by George Osborne.
  • (4) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
  • (5) Like Glover and Stanning before them, they went out and did what they have done all season, ignoring another tricky wind which caused a brief delay earlier in the morning.
  • (6) So, in The Devil Wears Prada , the ferocious magazine chief played by Meryl Streep is beset by secret misery: unfaithful husband, tricky kids, wig issues.
  • (7) Specialist learning disability liaison nurse Jainab Desai is making meticulous checks of the complex arrangements to receive a tricky patient with learning disabilities, with staff of the day surgery unit at Royal Bolton hospital.
  • (8) "I think it's tricky because as an industry, the stakes are quite high and people hire people they already know," she says.
  • (9) He stares down Cain, and works the count full after laying off some tricky pitches outside the zone that were trailing away from the righty.
  • (10) "It's like revisiting an old world," says Topley-Bird, who is droll and spacey where Tricky is hyperactively chatty.
  • (11) It is understood the Irish newspaper publisher will have to decide whether to sub-let the space to another business, which could be tricky in the depressed economic climate, or pay to break the contract.
  • (12) It can be tricky to move on from your youth, if your youth is what other people want to hear about.
  • (13) "There are plenty of things she can wax lyrical about without getting into tricky areas: the upcoming first world war centenary, the need for a more global outlook in the economy, the inspiring achievements of British parliamentary democracy."
  • (14) We still had to settle the tricky question of scale.
  • (15) She looks panicky for a moment, at the prospect of a particularly tricky financial poser...
  • (16) "This would require them to prove that YouView is dominant, which could be tricky, given the state of the market," said Becket McGrath, a partner at law firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge.
  • (17) The tricky thing here is that with these states, the non-nuclear powers might not know where that line might be drawn for the states with the bomb.
  • (18) Sleep easy Getting enough sleep can be tricky, especially near exams, but there are loads of things you can do to get better sleep and every little bit helps.
  • (19) Mancini joked that he hoped it was Everton rather than Moyes who City found tricky.
  • (20) "I start work in September full-time, so it may be a bit more tricky to keep up the sessions, but if I have to come after work instead I will.

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