Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being tricksy. Also
trickseyness .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being tricksy; trickiness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or condition of being
tricksy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Which is to say, this tricksiness is taken as evidence of trickery, a performative artifice aimed at an illusion of significance, an inflated sense of import.
More Pretentiousness Hal Duncan 2008
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Without having read the book myself, from this and other responses I've read or heard, I don't see any reason to challenge the assessment of the book as flawed, overly concerned with typographical tricksiness to the detriment of other literary qualities, and to the detriment of the book as a whole.
More Pretentiousness Hal Duncan 2008
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Which is to say, this tricksiness is taken as evidence of trickery, a performative artifice aimed at an illusion of significance, an inflated sense of import.
Archive 2008-04-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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Without having read the book myself, from this and other responses I've read or heard, I don't see any reason to challenge the assessment of the book as flawed, overly concerned with typographical tricksiness to the detriment of other literary qualities, and to the detriment of the book as a whole.
Archive 2008-04-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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Things like Zoline's Heat Death of the Universe, much liked by Aldiss he says, but is no fan of such writing tricksiness with science fictional trimmings, being basically a story about a common woman in California that isn't SF at all.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Golden Age Of Science Fiction - Kingsley Amis Blue Tyson 2008
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Some readers may not enjoy the existential tricksiness but the voice is similar enough between the two books that I think even they will be carried along for the ride.
:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2010
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His music lacks the rhythmic invention and tricksiness of the US R&B that inspired it (the almost-martial beat of Sergeant Smash comes closest), but it has the polish and commercial hooks of, well, all the other British auto-soul currently dominating the charts.
Talay Riley (No 859) 2010
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At other points, though, it all gets lost in its own tricksiness as it lurches back and forth from colonial India to 1930s Edinburgh and to the present day, swerving between characters 'viewpoints with such speed that it occasionally induces literary motion sickness.
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Having held back for those first three, sunny months, he fell into tricksiness and political game-playing.
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Having held back for those first three, sunny months, he fell into tricksiness and political game-playing.
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