tricksy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite marked by skill in deception
    tricky; wily; knavish; sly; slick; foxy; guileful; dodgy; crafty; cunning.
    • cunning men often pass for wise
    • deep political machinations
    • a foxy scheme
    • a slick evasive answer
    • sly as a fox
    • tricky Dick
    • a wily old attorney

WordNet

Trick"sy adjective
Etymology
From Trick.
Definitions
  1. Exhibiting artfulness; trickish. "My tricksy spirit!" Shak.
    he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for state wisdom. Coleridge.

Webster 1913