tricksy


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Synonyms for tricksy

marked by skill in deception

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because it is so tricksy." This was always a tendency of the
27) can sound more like tricksy obscuring of a basic mismatch between context and text than deep-rooted (or even causal) connection.
Held up in the early stages as Wings Of The Rock and Sound And Silence blazed the trail, Haddaf (5-1) was produced by James Doyle to hit the front in the final furlong and won going away by three-quarters of a length from Tricksy Spirit.
6.10 BLUFF CRAG 6.40 MAIN EDITION 7.10 IMPULSION 7.45 TRICKSY SPIRIT 8.15 HAWRIDGE FLYER 8.50 GANAYEM DOUBLE: WILD ILLUSION and NOT SO SLEEPY
Just like you, regular swimmers move one space each turn, creating tricksy barriers, but backstrokers swim slower, divers cut you off, bathers are static blockades and even fish turn up to halt your movements.
The tricksy puzzles will populate your thoughts at all hours, as you rack your brains for visual clues in the environment and remind yourself of what you learned from earlier challenges.
It's tricksy and rarely attering, so approach with caution.
A film for you to luxuriate in as every delightful, tricksy moment is spun out for your enjoyment.
Take note of the warning: Reader beware of child eating giants, haunting mermaids and tricksy goblins!
This year it celebrates all the tricksy characters that fill Roald Dahl''''s books - from George and his medicine to those foulsome Witches to Matilda and her parent-scaring tricks.
This year it celebrates all the tricksy characters that fill Roald Dahl''s books - from George and his medicine to those foulsome Witches to Matilda and her parent-scaring tricks.
Filmed on location in London, Trance is a tricksy psychological thriller, penned by Joe Ahearne and John Hodge, which plays loose and fast with our preconceptions.
"Obviously I don't have eight legs but in principle with even four limbs I can't see why there's any logical reason why you can't get a very good impression of spidery movement, but they're very tricksy."
Structure switches between the present and flashbacks covering the mother's death--a device that seems a little needlessly tricksy, until it becomes clear that this allows for a powerful scene at the pic's emotional climax.