tricksiness

noun

tricksiness

noun

Etymology From tricksy + -ness.

1

Usually The quality or state of being tricksy.

  • 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.1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Book IV, Chapter 28:

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