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Meaning of tricky

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  tricky
      adj 1: not to be trusted; "how extraordinarily slippery a liar
             the camera is"- James Agee [syn: {slippery}, {tricky}]
      2: having concealed difficulty; "a catchy question"; "a tricky
         recipe to follow" [syn: {catchy}, {tricky}]
      3: 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" [syn: {crafty}, {cunning}, {dodgy}, {foxy},
         {guileful}, {knavish}, {slick}, {sly}, {tricksy}, {tricky},
         {wily}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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