Synonyms for tricky
ˈtrɪk itrick·y

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1. tricky

   Synonyms:
   adroit, artful, crafty, cunning, deceitful, designing, diplomatic, foxy, insincere, intriguing, knowing, maneuvering, sharp, shrewd, sly, subtle, wily

   Antonyms:
   aboveboard, artless, candid, fair, frank, guileless, honest, impartial, ingenuous, innocent, naive, open, simple, sincere, straightforward, transparent, truthful, unbiased, unprejudiced, unreserved, unsophisticated

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1. slippery, trickyadjective

   not to be trusted

   "how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is"- James Agee

   Synonyms:
   dodgy, catchy, cunning, knavish, sly, guileful, wily, foxy, crafty, slippy, slick, tricksy, slippery

   Antonyms:
   trustworthy, trusty, easy, artless

2. catchy, trickyadjective

   having concealed difficulty

   "a catchy question"; "a tricky recipe to follow"

   Synonyms:
   dodgy, catchy, cunning, knavish, sly, attention-getting, guileful, wily, foxy, crafty, slick, tricksy, slippery

   Antonyms:
   easy, trustworthy, trusty, artless

3. crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wilyadjective

   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 Dick"; "a wily old attorney"

   Synonyms:
   tricksy, slippery, cunning, silky, clever, dicey, slick, sly, cute, satiny, chancy, sleek, catchy, ingenious, chanceful, pat, crafty, silklike, wily, guileful, knavish, dodgy, silken, glib, foxy

   Antonyms:
   artless, trustworthy, trusty, easy

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1. sneaky

   to do something different than said

   you will take a cookie when no one is looking

   Submitted by GallowayKitten on May 2, 2020  

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1. trickyadjective

   Synonyms:
   TRICKISH

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1. trickyadjective

   Synonyms:
   trickish, knavish, unprincipled, treacherous

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1. List of paraphrases for "tricky":

   delicate, thorny, difficult, sensitive, complicated, complex, awkward

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1. List of known nicknames for "Tricky":

   Adrian Thaws, Starving Souls, Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws, Tricky Kid

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1. Linda Gutierrez:

   You can’t not have farmers because you need food, but we have to have water in order to survive, there’s a very tricky balance to establish. Right now, if they don’t irrigate, we have water, but also a year from now we have no food.

2. Emily Ferris:

   Then it meant that it was tricky to tow the tanks back to Russia for repairs, because they were far away, and so a lot of them were abandoned. Lots of their equipment started breaking because the tanks can only take so much moving around, and, of course, you have the very well-documented resistance from local Ukrainians, who didn't take too well to being occupied.

3. Donna Orender:

   I think that what we wanted was to give the girls the chance to get a step up on us, that they would be able to have insights and learnings and connections that we didn't have at their age that would enable them to navigate a world that is pretty rough and tumble and tricky but full of positives and possibles, we don't want them to have to say' I wish I would have known,'.

4. Reilly Opelka:

   I’m curious to see his match with Djokovic, i think he can give Djokovic a lot of fits because he’s just tricky.

5. Elise Gould:

   You basically are causing some pain and suffering in the name of trying to fight inflation, and that's a really tricky calculus.