trickish

Definition of trickishnext

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trickish
Adjective
  • As Halloween approaches, investors seem fearful that good credit performance may be more trick than treat.
    Telis Demos, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2022
  • If the high cost of it all is more trick than treat for you, here are several ways to turn your already smart home into a spook-tacularly genius haunted house.
    Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2021
Adjective
  • Still, the lesson from five years ago is that Senate procedures can be tricky.
    Cleve Mesidor, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Legal experts have said the double jeopardy argument may be tricky since the charges involved are different.
    Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • That’s misleading, the FTC said, since customers who know how prices are set could take defensive measures, such as using a private browsing session or a virtual private network to mask their browsing history.
    Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2026
  • There are plenty of well-meaning people and experts posting content everyday, but both professors noted that even that material may be misleading, inconclusive or overly generalized.
    Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Lopez has been crafty on the base paths, recording 24 steals on 28 attempts.
    Data Skrive, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
  • In their free time, Karen and Bill love bonding over their crafty side together.
    Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Maye took the snap and gave it away again, set up by some wily safety play.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 6 Aug. 2026
  • A couple of hours later, Learner Tien lost to wily French veteran Adrian Mannarino.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Consider, for instance, the institution of oprichnina that Tsar Ivan IV established in 1565, through various cunning moves.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
  • With the correct number of dots, no arrangement, however cunning, can dodge these shapes forever.
    Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Even if Jacobs gets the majority of goal-line work, Lloyd could be a sneaky RB3/Flex.
    Jake Ciely, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Pleasants has the temperament and a sneaky-enough anchor to play on the interior, but the Niners can’t even rep him at guard right now.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Clinicians found real value in cases involving subtle fractures in the knees, feet and other extremities, where conventional X-ray findings were inconclusive or missed the fracture altogether.
    Erez Meltzer, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Then there are the subtle vanilla notes like those found in Orb Oils’s Lenny fragrance, matcha in Le Labo’s, or, say, Flamingo Estate’s Prinsesstårta roll-on captures notes of marzipan like a slice of Sant Ambroeus Princess cake.
    Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 21 Aug. 2026
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“Trickish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trickish. Accessed 23 Aug. 2026.

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