Adjective: tricky (trickier,trickiest) tri-kee
- Having concealed difficulty
"a tricky recipe to follow";
- catchy
- Marked by skill in deception
"tricky Dick";
- crafty, cunning, dodgy [Brit, informal], foxy, guileful, knavish, sly, tricksy, wily
- Not to be trusted
"how extraordinarily tricky a liar the camera is";
- slippery
Derived forms: trickier, trickiest
See also: artful, difficult, hard, untrustworthy, untrusty
Encyclopedia: Tricky