[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being tricky; deceitfulness; also intricacy, complexity.
1723. Caldwell Papers (Maitl. Cl.), I. 250. Allowing a child’s prevaricating, and laughing at its little trickiness and cunning.
1868. Morn. Star, 19 June. A good deal of trickiness in the matter of petitions has lately been discovered.
1885. Spectator, 8 Aug., 1041/1. Even the brilliance of his literary expression is beginning to be suspected of trickiness.
1894. Baring-Gould, Kitty Alone, III. 56. Her simple mind … with no trickiness or dissimulation in it.
