tricky
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Tricky
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| —adj , trickier, trickiest | |
| 1. | involving snags or difficulties: a tricky job |
| 2. | needing careful and tactful handling: a tricky situation |
| 3. | characterized by tricks; sly; wily: a tricky dealer |
| 'trickily | |
| —adv | |
| 'trickiness | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
When they win, it's some sort of complicated message about bipartisanship and the tricky optics of modern governance.
Not to mention the potential dangers of alcohol consumption or the tricky world of ethnic foods.
In particular, sudden changes in its height made the job of flying safely above it a tricky one.
There's also the tricky problem of the ocean having all that watery stuff, and fish having no limbs.
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