tricksiness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]tricksiness (usually uncountable, plural tricksinesses)
- The quality or state of being tricksy.
- 1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Book IV, Chapter 28:
- From the very first there had been an exasperating fascination in the tricksiness with which she had- not met his advances, but- wheeled away from them.
References
[edit]“tricksiness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.