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trickily
adverb
uk /ˈtrɪk.əl.i/ us /ˈtrɪ.kəl.i/
trickilyadverb (DIFFICULT)
in a way that is difficult to deal with and needs careful attention or skill:
The soldiers had to watch out for trickily hidden landmines.
Her latest novel has an ambitious and trickily arranged narrative.
She wore a beautifully patterned scarf that was knotted rather trickily around her shoulders.
It was a game he had played trickily and with great enthusiasm.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Complicated and difficult to do
advanced
ambitious
ambitiously
another
arduous
formidable
formidably
get blood out of/from a stoneidiom
grail
gruelling
onerous
onerously
overdemanding
painstaking
picnic
toughen
tricky
tuff
ultra-sensitive
unintuitive
trickilyadverb (DISHONEST)
old-fashioned
in a way that is likely to deceive people:
This trickily worded statement was deliberately designed to mislead the public about what was going on.
She had the political sense to understand how trickily he had manipulated the matter.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Sly & devious
artful
artfully
artfulness
backdoor
calculating
cunningly
devious
deviously
deviousness
disingenuous
ducking
guile
guileful
guilefully
legerdemain
Machiavellian
tricky
underhand
weaselly
wily
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