[ adj ] marked by skill in deception <adj.all> cunning men often pass for wisedeep political machinations a foxy scheme a slick evasive answer sly as a fox tricky Dick a wily old attorney
he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for state wisdom. --Coleridge.
And Welles's own taste, far from favouring the gimmicky, prefers the elegiac Ambersons to the tricksy Kane, the rueful Chimes At Midnight to the bizarre The Lady From Shanghai.