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--adj. 9 See tricky, 3, below.
trickery n. chicanery, deception, deceit, guile, shrewdness, craftiness,
slyness, shiftiness, evasiveness, artfulness, artifice, craft,
imposture, swindling, knavery, duplicity, double-dealing, fraud,
cheating, Colloq hanky-panky, skulduggery, funny or monkey
business, jiggery-pokery: He separated her from her money by
trickery.
trickle v. 1 drip, drop, dribble, drizzle, run, flow, spill; ooze,
seep, leak, exude: The water trickled onto the floor. Blood is
trickling from the wound.
--n. 2 drip, seepage, spill, dribble, runnel, runlet, rivulet:
A tiny trickle of saliva appeared at the corner of his mouth.
tricky adj. 1 deceitful, shady, deceptive, shifty, dodgy, artful,
guileful, crafty, duplicitous, shrewd, cunning, dishonest,
devious, sly, wily, slippery, foxy, double-dealing, cheating:
Arthur is a tricky chap and I shouldn't trust him. 2 ticklish,
risky, hazardous, sensitive, delicate, touch-and-go, thorny,
difficult, awkward, complex, complicated, knotty, uncertain,
debatable, Colloq iffy, sticky: It is a tricky decision whether
you tell a patient how ill he really is. 3 unfair, unjust,
unsportsmanlike, deceptive, Colloq trick: There were some
tricky questions in today's exam.
trifle n. 1 knick-knack, trinket, bauble, bagatelle, toy, gewgaw,
nothing, plaything, bˆtise, Colloq doodah: Oh, it's nothing,
just a trifle I picked up in the Seychelles. 2 little, bit,
drop, iota, scintilla, suggestion, dash, dab, pinch, whiff,
mite, whit, jot, tittle, Colloq smidgen or smidgin, US tad: I'd
like a trifle more sugar in my coffee, if you don't mind.
--v. 3 Usually, trifle with. dally (with), flirt (with), wanton
(with), mess about (with), toy (with); play (with), fiddle
(with), dandle, tinker (with), fidget (with): I hated to see
the way he trifled with my sister's affections. While trifling
with this knob, I was able to get Radio Moscow.
trifling adj. trivial, insignificant, unimportant, puny, minor, paltry,
slight, petty, inconsequential, frivolous, superficial,