Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Tricksy \Trick"sy\, a. [From {Trick}.]
Exhibiting artfulness; trickish. ``My tricksy spirit!''
--Shak.
he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century
passed for state wisdom. --Coleridge.
Source : WordNet®
tricksy
adj : marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for
wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme";
"a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dik";
"a wily old attorney" [syn: {crafty}, {cunning}, {dodgy},
{foxy}, {guileful}, {knavish}, {slick}, {sly}, {tricky},
{wily}]
[also: {tricksiest}, {tricksier}]