[f. TRICKSY a. + -NESS.] The quality or condition of being tricksy.

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  1.  Artful smartness of apparel. rare.

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a. 1553.  C. Bansley, Treat., xix. (Percy S.), 6. Loke well, ye men, to your wives trycksynes, whyche is to shamefull wyde.

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  2.  Playfulness, sprightliness; mischievousness.

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1846.  D. Jerrold, Chron. Clovernook, Wks. 1864, IV. 439. The tricksiness of an extravagant spirit.

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1871.  G. Meredith, H. Richmond, II. 21. Pride in their physical prowess, their dexterity, ingenuity, and tricksiness, and their purity of blood.

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1876.  Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., I. vii. There was none of the latent fun and tricksiness which had always pierced in her greeting of Rex.

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  3.  Deceptiveness, trickiness.

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1858.  Bradford Observer, 19 Aug., 4/4. A vast number of earnest-minded men to be found sick of the hollowness and tricksiness of modern statesmanship.

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1888.  J. T. Walker, Reason. Chr., 2. The Judge points out … its tricksiness and capacity for self deception.

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