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. Graeme McDowell:

   The golf course is firm and fast and really tricky and better for guys like me and Jim Furyk, rather than the usual Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroys that play well around Firestone, it really requires a lot of grinding.

2. Englishman Fleetwood:

   Expectation's a tricky thing. It's clearly the next step for me to win over here, but winning's not easy and I've just got to keep plodding away.

3. Lindsey Vonn:

   It's always tricky with these conditions -- the wind was going back and forth, some people got headwind, some people got tailwind. I'm just really happy to come away with another win and another record.

4. Gael Monfils:

   Its going to be a tricky one at the beginning, I would say, for both.

5. Romain Grosjean:

   It does not mean we can't fight for podiums this weekend. Look at Spa, we had bailiffs in the garage and we ended up on the podium, it is a situation which is very tricky. We are waiting for answers and confirmation for the future of the team, but the spirit is still there.