tricky

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

adjective

1. having concealed difficulty
- a catchy question
- a tricky recipe to follow
• Syn:
catchy
• Similar to:
difficult, hard
• Derivationally related forms:
trickiness, catch (for: catchy)
2. 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, wily
• Similar to:
artful
• Derivationally related forms:
wile (for: wily), wiliness (for: wily), trickiness, trick, trick (for: tricksy), slyness (for: sly), slickness (for: slick), fox (for: foxy), foxiness (for: foxy), dodge (for: dodgy), craft (for: crafty), craftiness (for: crafty)
3. not to be trusted
- "how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is"- James Agee
• Syn:
slippery
• Similar to:
untrustworthy, untrusty
• Derivationally related forms:
trickiness, slipperiness (for: slippery)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  catchy, slippery