What's the difference between trickery and tricksy?
Trickery
Definition:
(n.) The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the party was left confused and damaged when the voting booths closed and both camps immediately made accusations of ballot fraud, trickery and irregularities, lodging complaints with the party's internal election monitoring body.
(2) 4.13am GMT 90 mins +3 Neagle tries a little trickery wide right, trying to end his interest in this series with a decisive touch, but his short through ball is overhit.
(3) This parliamentary trickery can be traced to another controversial Westminster moment: the government's determination to introduce 42-day detention.
(4) Md Shamsuddoha, a campaigner with Justice and Equity Bangladesh, said: "Channelling climate funds through the World Bank is a trickery of the British government to weaken the argument for channelling funds through the United Nations or national funds.
(5) Four completions, one spiked football, and then, on first-and-goal at the one-yard line, a wonderful piece of trickery, as he gestured furiously at his team-mates to run to the line for a spike play, but instead leaped over the line for a touchdown.
(6) Holding hands prevents participants from disrupting the trickery.
(7) 2.50am GMT 10 mins First look at Rivero trying a little trickery by the touchline, and then getting caught by Traore as he tries another little flick forward.
(8) But also increasingly we are seeing people with learning disabilities becoming targeted for forced marriage through coercion or trickery in order to extract their finances or accommodation or even for passports or visas.” Forced marriage is a deeply malign cultural practice – but it’s not the only one | Deborah Orr Read more Respond Chief Executive Noelle Blackman worries that the nuance of the cases they see is not allowed for by the new legislation: “The new Health and Care act promotes advocacy for people with learning disabilities, but we are concerned that this is likely to come from generic advocacy agencies without the specialised knowledge that would be needed.” Let’s hope, as Khan does, that this first case to be prosecuted, “will send out a very strong message”.
(9) He added of his rival’s campaign: “They have a long record they’ve earned in South Carolina of engaging in this kind of trickery and impugning the integrity of whoever their opponent is to distract the attention.
(10) It is pushing the campaign off the front of the news locally.” The election has been a long, brutal process and people are much more interested in the World Series John Grabowski, Case Western Reserve University Grabowski cautioned against notions of baseball as morally pure escapism, noting the sport’s own history of “chicanery and trickery”, but added: “Nonetheless it’s linked to what America is supposed to be about – the field of dreams.
(11) Stoke were tormented, unable to match his acceleration and bewitched by his trickery.
(12) It's thinking not dissimilar to one of those terrifying internet male pickup artists – all buzzwords and trickery, although I've never known any of them to follow up their attempts to seduce with a bastardised version of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech ("I want to see a Britain where no matter where you come from, what god you worship, the colour of your skin, what community you belong to, you can get to the top in television, the judiciary, armed services, politics, newspapers.")
(13) Lamela scored three goals in the first half – extending his fine record in this competition – and Tom Carroll’s dogged trickery added a fourth late on‚ his first for the club.
(14) The embarrassed hospital has condemned the hoax as "pretty deplorable" and "journalistic trickery".
(15) O'Neill, who continues to pursue the Wolves centre-forward Steven Fletcher but has accepted that the midfielder or left back Kieran Richardson remains determined to leave the Stadium of Light, is desperate to add "pace and trickery" to his team along with a striker and a left-back.
(16) I can easily generate a Man City fan's revulsion about Sir Alex Ferguson's surly shtick, strategic trickery, his bloody, battering success.
(17) The deja vu will stab at Atlético when they also reflect on Griezmann firing a penalty against the crossbar early in a second half when Yannick Carrasco changed the match with his pace, trickery and directness.
(18) 2.57am GMT 45 mins +2 Luis Gil shows a little trickery in the box down the right again, but Ricketts dives on his ball in towards the near post.
(19) Further down the nave, another marker signals the best vantage point for a second bit of trickery.
(20) True, there was a big warning flashed up over the spending cuts to come, but in general the IFS did not find much evidence of trickery.
Tricksy
Definition:
(a.) Exhibiting artfulness; trickish.
Example Sentences:
(1) These principles may look tricksy or artificial when described rather than experienced but are not, says Catton, an "exoskeleton" – rather they are entirely bound up with the ideas of the book.
(2) But what I do share with the hundreds of thousands living with this tricksy condition is disbelief at the stigma and shame still surrounding a disease that affects the brain and which can ultimately affect as many as one in three of us.
(3) Last year, the video to Lily Allen's tricksy comeback single, Hard Out Here, showed her under the scrutiny of a plastic surgeon, protesting: "I've had two babies!"
(4) Tim Vine gag named funniest joke at Edinburgh Brian Logan on comedy snobs Stewart Lee review – tricksy gags about liberals, rightwingers and ‘the Islams’ Noel Fielding review – solo standup set is a holiday from reality Aziz Ansari: ‘It’s time to get serious’ Lee Mack review – latterday Eric Morecambe is gloriously daft Q&A: Dave Gorman gets to the point – ‘most of the world is lovely’
(5) Shappi Khorsandi review – perky gags about porn and prejudice Harry Hill on tour: ukuleles, inflatable sausages and Bradley Wiggins’ sideburns – video Kevin Bridges: ‘I prefer real to surreal’ Stewart Lee review – tricksy gags about liberals, rightwingers and ‘the Islams’ Noel Fielding review – solo standup set is a holiday from reality Aziz Ansari: ‘It’s time to get serious’
(6) The meticulous crafting of huge piles of rubbish into tricksy self-portraits - revealed only when light is projected upon the apparently formless heap and shadows are thrown against the wall - in both Dirty White Trash (With Gulls) and The Undesirables - are satisfyingly clever and punning, for example.
(7) Their Islamic State hostage sketch is a little glib, but there’s a funny skit about a couple planning (in different ways) to spice up their life together, and a tricksy number, reminiscent of The Pin , where Paul G Raymond and Luke Manning review and perform their show simultaneously.
(8) She has not been above being tricksy at the European table before, where that serves her partisan interests, including over the appointment of Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the commission, where her reported views blew about with the political wind.
(9) Arsène Wenger is also still seeking a non-tricksy midfielder and a serious centre-forward, sparking rumours as with the imminent arrival of Godot.
(10) More or less everyone says his best position is ahead of the midfield, obviously not as the traditional tricksy No10 but as a hairy chaos machine, someone who can hold the ball up half the time with the help of that famously massive chest of his, and the other half just causing a bit of havoc.
(11) No more the tricksy party of protest but, today and in future, and now mature, the nation's essential safeguard inside government.
(12) Harman says her contacts with Eustice were never "tricksy".
(13) The idea is that it will also learn to understand tricksy human traits such as irony, jokes and puns.
(14) One thing Ollie Dabbous didn't want to do was let the hype affect his food, which is clever without being tricksy, and often quite restrained.
(15) More comedy coverage Revealed: the nation’s No 1 toilet joke Shappi Khorsandi review – perky gags about porn and prejudice Stewart Lee review – tricksy gags about liberals, rightwingers and ‘the Islams’ Noel Fielding review – solo standup set is a holiday from reality Aziz Ansari: ‘It’s time to get serious’ Lee Mack review – latterday Eric Morecambe is gloriously daft Q&A: Dave Gorman gets to the point – ‘most of the world is lovely’ Ivo Graham review – old Etonian comic revels in inadequacy Rewind and recoil: Joseph Morpurgo’s twisted VHS world of comedy Bill Cosby standup review – at 77, still strikingly casual and effortlessly skilled
(16) On one hand, it might have been deliberate; a classic tricksy mind game designed to unsettle a side that had briefly threatened to halt Germany’s progress for good.