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tricky

/tɹɪki/

adjective

difficult to do or deal with; something that needs skill

  • “Expressing yourself seems easy enough, but it's surprisingly tricky.”Tatoeba
  • “It was a bit tricky to do that.”Tatoeba

Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.

Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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