tricksy in English

adjective
1
clever in an ingenious or deceptive way.
a typically tricksy beginning to his latest venture
adjective

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1. People always forget to remember I'm tricksy, huh?

2. Its droll tone and tricksy style almost mask its heroine's solitude and tristesse.

3. Vague goals give the tricksy brain too much wiggle room: "Hey, I lost weight."

4. While my extensive experience as an editor has led me to a disdain... for flashbacks and flash-forwards and all such tricksy gimmicks...

5. This is the first book-length study of Plautus' shortest surviving comedy, Curculio, a play in which the tricksy brown-nosed title character (“The Weevil”) bamboozles a shady banker and a pious pimp to secure the freedom of the enslaved girl his patron has fallen for while keeping her out of the clutches of a megalomaniacal soldier.