TRICKY

crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily

(adjective) 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 Dick”; “a wily old attorney”

catchy, tricky

(adjective) having concealed difficulty; “a catchy question”; “a tricky recipe to follow”

slippery, tricky

(adjective) not to be trusted; “how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is”- James Agee

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

tricky (comparative trickier, superlative trickiest)

hard to deal with, complicated

adept at using deception

(colloquial, slang) Relating to or associated with a prostitution trick

Source: Wiktionary


Trick"y, a.

Definition: Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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31 March 2025

IMPROVISED

(adjective) done or made using whatever is available; “crossed the river on improvised bridges”; “the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear”; “the rock served as a makeshift hammer”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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