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. Gael Monfils:

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

2. Greta Thunberg:

   The tricky thing is that its on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. And there are no trains going there, and since I dont fly, because of the enormous climate impact of aviation, its going to be a challenge. I havent quite figured that out yet.

3. Deba Mohanty:

   It's a really tricky situation in which the supplier is unhappy, the bureaucrats are unhappy and the end user is disappointed.

4. Laksheish M Patel:

   The ways how SBICAP broker makes clients to loss money 1) Trading platform is clamp down during market fall 2) No command is accepted by trading platform when market swings and at closing session 3) Whole screen or transaction page of trading platform gets whitewashed especially during sudden surge or downfall 4) Accounting system is ambiguous and tricky 5) Automated reply to each complaints and not resolving. No real customer service

5. The Briton:

   The day was pretty good, but it was a tricky one because it was so windy out there, every driver was struggling with the changing direction of the wind. You're constantly arriving at each corner and the wind direction is never the same, so we saw lots of drivers going off.