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Adjective tricky has 3 senses
- slippery, tricky, teflon - not to be trusted; "how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is"- James Agee; "they called Reagan the teflon president because mud never stuck to him"
Antonyms: trustworthy, trusty (indirect, via untrustworthy)
- catchy, tricky - having concealed difficulty; "a catchy question"; "a tricky recipe to follow"
Antonym: easy (indirect, via difficult)
- crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily - 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 Dik"; "a wily old attorney"
Antonym: artless (indirect, via artful)
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