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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tricky \Trick"y\, adjective Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tricky
adjective
1: 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" [syn: {slippery}, {teflon}]
2: having concealed difficulty; "a catchy question"; "a tricky recipe to follow" [syn: {catchy}]
3: 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" [syn: {crafty}, {cunning}, {dodgy}, {foxy}, {guileful}, {knavish}, {slick}, {sly}, {tricksy}, {wily}] [also: {trickiest}, {trickier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
183 Moby Thesaurus words for "tricky": Herculean, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, abstruse, acute, ambidextrous, amoral, arch, arduous, artful, astute, awkward, beguiling, brutal, cagey, calculating, canny, catchy, cheating, chiseling, clever, collusive, complex, complicated, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, covinous, crafty, criminal, critical, crooked, cunning, cute, dark, debatable, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, deep, deep-laid, delicate, delusive, delusory, demanding, designing, devious, difficile, difficult, diplomatic, dishonest, dishonorable, double, double-dealing, doubtful, dubious, duplicitous, evasive, exacting, fallacious, false, falsehearted, feline, felonious, finagling, fishy, formidable, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, guileful, hairy, hallucinatory, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, hazardous, iffy, ill-got, ill-gotten, illusive, illusory, immoral, indirect, ingenious, insidious, intricate, inventive, jawbreaking, knotted, knotty, knowing, laborious, mean, misleading, no picnic, not easy, not kosher, operose, pawky, perfidious, playful, politic, prankish, pranksome, pranky, precarious, questionable, quirky, ready, resourceful, rigorous, risky, rocky, roguish, rotten, rough, rugged, scheming, sensitive, serpentine, set with thorns, severe, shady, shameless, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sinister, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, spiny, sportive, stealthy, steep, sticky, strategic, strenuous, subtile, subtle, supple, surreptitious, suspicious, tactical, thorny, ticklish, toilsome, touch-and-go, touchy, tough, treacherous, trick, trickish, tricksy, two-faced, uncertain, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, undependable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unfair, unjust, unprincipled, unsavory, unscrupulous, unsportsmanlike, unstraightforward, uphill, vulpine, waggish, wary, wicked, wily, without remorse, without shame
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