What's the difference between ticklish and tricky?
Ticklish
Definition:
(a.) Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish.
(a.) Standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily affected; unstable.
(a.) Difficult; nice; critical; as, a ticklish business.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I think it must be possible that News Corp will get rid of its entire British holdings, of newspapers that is, and that if it is to do so, first of all the problem would have vanished if you like from the point of view of the parent company and for us as investors, and the shares will certainly bounce up again, and so it is a ticklish area."
(2) They include: The Ticklish Subject , which deals with "the spectre of the Cartesian subject in western thought"; The Plague of Fantasies , which analyses the ways in which "audiovisual media clouds the ability to reason and understand the world"; and the wonderfully titled Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?
(3) behind these miscellaneous behavior disorders which evoke more an antisocial personality, is ticklish.
(4) The discovery of synchronous hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer poses a tactical problem ticklish to resolve.
(5) Following hypotheses by Darwin and Hecker on the connection between tickling and humorous laughter, questionnaire data were collected from 100 college students regarding their reported ticklishness and tendencies to laugh and show responses ancillary to laughter.
(6) He has organised a series of seminars on national security strategy, its relation to national identity and the ticklish problem of disentangling the spying and communications infrastructures.
(7) These findings lend preliminary support for the Darwin-Hecker conjecture that reflexes underlying ticklishness mediate humor.
(8) They need to recover from their post-Copa hangover fairly quickly, or else qualification could get ticklish, at best.
(9) Ticklishness was related to propensities to: (a) giggle, (b) laugh, (c) smile, (d) piloerect, (e) blush, and (f) cry.
(10) The results of this survey reveal a significative increase of the basic plasmatic cortisol among the depressed patients, including dysthymics, a decrease of the plasmatic MHPG during major depressions, and a significant fall of the total T3 among depressed men, as well as some correlations between the different axes, the interpretation of which remains "ticklish".
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.