Dictionary entry
Tricksier
Pronunciation
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Myanmar Meaning
(Adj[com]) tricksy
Definition
tricksy /'trÇksi/ adj ( infml usu derog ) (တင္ဆက္မႈ) ဆန္းျပား ႐ႈပ္ေထြးေသာ။ a film full of tricksy camera-work that fails to disguise a weak story.
Examples
- ‘Someone tricksy has been taking pictures of the car he drives in the forthcoming movie.’
- ‘Our traditional institutions of learning are under threat from these nasty
- tricksy cheats.’
- ‘Strachan
- on the other hand
- was regarded as tricksy enough to outmanoeuvre his dour Aberdeen and Manchester United manager.’
- ‘Bawer is quite plainly a talented writer
- but he is also tricksy
- and he has a tendency to overload what are often perfectly valid points with debatable stylistic flourishes.’
- ‘But Gray is a tricksy fellow and might be fibbing.’
- ‘I'd rather thought this might happen
- because one or two of the words were tricksy
- to say the least.’
- ‘Partly it is through a fear of actually engaging with the tricksy arguments themselves: it is altogether easier to attack the individual - to take out the man
- rather than the ball
- as it were.’
- ‘The second paper was again a little tricksy in places
- but overall nicer than the first one.’
- ‘It's all well-played by the Northern Sinfonia under James Sinclair
- and the music is sprightly and often engaging
- but a lot of it is tricksy stuff
- full of little efforts at musical humour or attention grabbing.’
- ‘It is immensely clever
- perhaps overly tricksy for some tastes and
- most importantly
- extraordinarily brilliant.’
- ‘It's pretty middling stuff
- with a tricksy mannerism of freeze-framing the action at the end of a scene
- which makes it look like a dodgy DVD pressing.’
- ‘It is also a thing of beauty
- with typography that's clever without being tricksy
- saliva-inducing photography and cute little naif drawings.’
- ‘Flashbacks
- dream sequences and supernatural intervention merge into a miasma of disjointed
- tricksy effects.’
- ‘They think up tricksy names
- they might even hire an expensive designer to do them a label
- and when it comes to the end
- their wine is made in the same winery as all their rivals' wines.’
- ‘Out went the tacky
- big-budget stage sets and tricksy technology and in came rock 'n' roll again.’
- ‘The Maltings' interior design is obviously not to the judge's taste: it is said to be ‘entirely contrived
- with a tricksy decor strong on salvaged somewhat quirky junk’.’
- ‘Also
- a pair of tricksy pop-out cupholders hide behind a flimsy bit of plastic on the passenger side.’
- ‘Now there's a tricksy little topic not likely to raise many smiles should it happen to pop up in conversation.’
- ‘Sure
- the profile questions were laboured and tricksy
- but they either gave way to genuine honesty or exposed pretension; you could just tell when a person was straining to be winsome.’
- ‘Then again
- it might just be a tricksy way of showing-off a bit.’