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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.

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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