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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs trick and trickle which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

tricky
  1. hard to deal with, complicated
  2. adept at using deception
  3. Synonyms:
      4. difficult, challenging, tough, hard, painstaking, daunting, demanding, distressing, disturbing, awkward, trying, worrisome, bothersome, unsettling, troubling, troublesome, vexatious, disquieting, niggling, taxing, worrying, thorny, irritating, upsetting, hairy, perturbing, annoying, harassing, problematic, vexing, irksome, tiresome, wearisome, alarming, inconvenient, nagging, unpleasant, traumatic, nerve-racking, aggravating, concerning, exasperating, harrying, maddening, burdensome, troublous, pesky, harrowing, nerve-wracking, dismaying … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “In a tricky maneuver, I slid over to the passenger's side of the car seat while Bud flopped into the driver's seat and took control of the car.”
      “Even asking this question is fraught with all kinds of dangers as it is a tricky and delicate matter.”
      “As a kid, he'd always loved movies where characters tried to pull off a tricky con.”
tricksterish
  1. Like a trickster; cunning; mischievous.
tricksome
  1. Characterised by tricks or trickery; cunning.
  2. Examples:
      3. “A tricksome thing is life, Miss Polly, especially for a andsome female, and no young fellow to be trusted with it.”
      “The visitor should beware of the tricksome water-works upon this terrace.”
tricksy
  1. Inclined to trickery; sneaky, devious.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. difficult, tricky, delicate, thorny, sensitive, problematic, sticky, knotty, tough, prickly, ticklish, hairy, problematical, touchy, dodgy, nasty, catchy, spiny, awkward, complicated, intricate, complex, involved, hard, convoluted, perplexing, troublesome, uncertain, taxing, controversial, irksome, bothersome, precarious, vexed, trying, vexatious, worrying, risky, concerning, baffling, embarrassing, critical, dicey, upsetting, unstable, rocky, uncomfortable, chancy, fiddly, volatile … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The magician's tricksy sleight of hand left the audience in awe of his dexterity and masterful control.”
      “The tricksy little kitten joyfully swatted at the dangling ornaments on the Christmas tree.”
      “Of two works by David Parsons, Shining Star is a be-happy piece for dancers in angelic white, against tricksy banks of lights.”
trickish
  1. Using tricks or trickery.
  2. Examples:
      3. “The dishevelled madman of the stage behind the scenes turned crafty, trickish, and wary to a degree.”
      “Even when the medium sincerely invokes a great soul of the past there is the possibility of a trickish soul interfering and playing the counterfeit.”
trick
  1. (slang) Stylish or cool.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. delusory, illusory, artificial, chimerical, illusionary, misleading, bogus, fake, false, hoax, pretend, sham, hallucinatory, phony, phoney, contrived, faked, spurious, fabricated, fictitious, deceptive, untrue, invented, concocted, adopted, dishonest, delusive, apocryphal, cooked-up, trumped-up, made-up, made up, counterfeit, improvised, cod, non-existent, cunning, devious, sly, sneaky, crafty, deceitful, disingenuous, duplicitous, Machiavellian, scheming, shady, shifty, underhanded … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “These optical illusions have been created through the use of trick photography.”
      “I'm on to you. Your trick questions will not work on me.”
trickable
  1. Capable of being tricked.
trickless
  1. (card game) Without any tricks.
  2. Examples:
      3. “A player should be most careful not to indicate by some mannerism that his hand is trickless.”
tricksier
  1. comparative form of tricksy: more tricksy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. difficulter, trickier, thornier, stickier, knottier, tougher, pricklier, hairier, touchier, dodgier, nastier, catchier, spinier, more delicate, more sensitive, more ticklish, more problematical, awkwarder, more complicated, more intricate, more complex, more involved, harder, more convoluted, more troublesome, more perplexing, more uncertain, more taxing, more controversial, more irksome, more vexed, more bothersome, more precarious, more trying, more vexatious, more worrying, more baffling, riskier, more concerning, more embarrassing, more critical, dicier, more upsetting, more unstable, rockier, more uncomfortable, chancier, fiddlier, more volatile, more nettlesome … more
tricksiest
  1. superlative form of tricksy: most tricksy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. difficultest, trickiest, thorniest, stickiest, knottiest, toughest, prickliest, hairiest, touchiest, dodgiest, nastiest, catchiest, spiniest, most delicate, most sensitive, most ticklish, most problematical, awkwardest, most complicated, most intricate, most complex, most involved, hardest, most convoluted, most troublesome, most perplexing, most uncertain, most taxing, most controversial, most irksome, most vexed, most bothersome, most precarious, most trying, most vexatious, most worrying, most baffling, riskiest, most concerning, most embarrassing, most critical, diciest, most upsetting, most unstable, rockiest, most uncomfortable, chanciest, fiddliest, most volatile, most nettlesome … more
trickier
  1. comparative form of tricky: more tricky
  2. Synonyms:
      3. difficulter, tougher, harder, more challenging, more painstaking, more daunting, more demanding, more distressing, more disturbing, awkwarder, more trying, more worrisome, more bothersome, more troubling, more unsettling, more troublesome, more vexatious, more disquieting, more taxing, more worrying, more irritating, thornier, more upsetting, hairier, more annoying, more irksome, plaguier, more tiresome, more wearisome, more alarming, more inconvenient, more nagging, unpleasanter, more traumatic, more nerve-racking, more concerning, more exasperating, more maddening, more burdensome, more troublous, peskier, more harrowing, more nerve-wracking, more pestiferous, more pestilent, more pestilential, graver, pricklier, more tormenting, stickier … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “To get them into a computer, you have to re-record the music in a digital format, a much trickier and slower process.”
      “The poet now faces the trickier task of penning a celebratory ode for the prince's second wedding.”
      “The question, if one tries to balance all the available evidence, is a lot trickier than it may seem.”
trickiest
  1. superlative form of tricky: most tricky
  2. Synonyms:
      3. difficultest, toughest, hardest, most challenging, most painstaking, most daunting, most demanding, most distressing, most disturbing, awkwardest, most trying, most worrisome, most bothersome, most troubling, most unsettling, most troublesome, most vexatious, most disquieting, most taxing, most worrying, most irritating, thorniest, most upsetting, hairiest, most annoying, most irksome, plaguiest, most tiresome, most wearisome, most alarming, most inconvenient, most nagging, unpleasantest, most traumatic, most nerve-racking, most concerning, most exasperating, most maddening, most burdensome, most troublous, peskiest, most harrowing, most nerve-wracking, most pestiferous, most pestilent, most pestilential, gravest, prickliest, most tormenting, stickiest … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The trickiest step is cutting grooves inside the lips to fit the barrelheads tightly.”
      “Addressing a smear is one of the hardest, trickiest, most delicate things in politics.”
      “It was impossible to reach from our bank through the trees, and approachable only from the trickiest of angles on the opposite side.”
trickest
  1. superlative form of trick: most trick
  2. Synonyms:
      3. fakest, falsest, most delusory, most illusory, most artificial, most chimerical, most illusionary, most misleading, most bogus, most sham, most hallucinatory, phoniest, most spurious, most unauthentic, most inauthentic, queerest, snidest, most fraudulent, most deceptive, most fictitious, most cod, most contrived, most untrue, most invented, most ersatz, most dishonest, most delusive, most apocryphal, most made-up, most trumped-up, most falsified, most copycat, sliest, sneakiest, craftiest, shadiest, shiftiest, slipperiest, trickiest, foxiest, subtlest, most cunning, most devious, most deceitful, most disingenuous, most duplicitous, most Machiavellian, most scheming, most underhanded … more
tricked
  1. simple past tense and past participle of trick
  2. Synonyms:
      3. set up, conned, deceived, coaxed, manipulated, used, exploited, had, cajoled, cheated, controlled, disinformed, gulled, double-crossed, duped, ensnared, entraped, fooled, framed, hoaxed, leveraged, misled, sweet-talked, flimflammed, hoodwinked, bamboozled, cozened, put one over on, suckered, deluded, beguiled, swindled, gaffed, defrauded, snookered, strung along, bluffed, hornswoggled, burnt, burned, bilked, beat, misguided, misinformed, snowed, humbugged, sucked in, faked out, juggled, spoofed … more
tricking
  1. present participle of trick
  2. Synonyms:
      3. getting, catching out, deceiving, duping, conning, hoodwinking, bamboozling, misleading, fooling, cozening, suckering, deluding, cheating, gulling, beguiling, swindling, hoaxing, gaffing, defrauding, snookering, taking in, having, bluffing, stringing along, hornswoggling, bilking, burning, misguiding, misinforming, snowing, humbugging, sucking in, faking out, taking for a ride, juggling, spoofing, buffaloing, having on, stiffing, gammoning, diddling, catching, fleecing, putting one over on, stinging, ripping off, flimflamming, victimizing, scamming, rooking … more
trickled
  1. simple past tense and past participle of trickle
  2. Synonyms:
      3. flowed, dribbled, spilled, spilt, ran, run, dripped, streamed, dropped, drizzled, distilled, trilled, filtered, wept, weeped, crawled, crept, creeped, ran out, run out, poured, leaked, seeped, oozed, rolled, cascaded, exuded, emanated, flooded, coursed, discharged, spread, slid, glided, glid, issued, overflowed, gushed, welled, shed, splashed, spurted, bled, spouted, felled, swept, poured out, brimmed, slidden, surged … more
trickling
  1. present participle of trickle
  2. Synonyms:
      3. flowing, dribbling, spilling, running, dripping, streaming, dropping, drizzling, distilling, trilling, filtering, weeping, crawling, creeping, running out, pouring, leaking, splashing, seeping, cascading, oozing, sliding, falling, emanating, falling in drops, sprinkling, rolling, overflowing, flooding, exuding, gliding, going, spreading, slopping, sweeping, sloshing, plopping, moving, overbrimming, sploshing, brimming, overrunning, overfilling, spilling over, spilling out, welling over, running over, coursing, bleeding, tumbling … more
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