tricky (adj.)
- abstruse
- acute
- ambidextrous
- arch
- arduous
- artful
- astute
- awkward
- beguiling
- brutal
- cagey
- calculating
- canny
- catchy
- cheating
- clever
- collusive
- complex
- complicated
- conscienceless
- corrupt
- corrupted
- crafty
- criminal
- critical
- crooked
- cunning
- cute
- dark
- debatable
- deceitful
- deceiving
- deceptive
- deep
- deep-laid
- delicate
- delusive
- delusory
- demanding
- designing
- devious
- difficult
- diplomatic
- dishonest
- dishonorable
- double
- double-dealing
- doubtful
- dubious
- duplicitous
- evasive
- exacting
- fallacious
- false
- feline
- felonious
- fishy
- formidable
- foxy
- fraudulent
- furtive
- guileful
- hairy
- hallucinatory
- hard
- hard-fought
- hazardous
- iffy
- ill-gotten
- illusive
- illusory
- immoral
- indirect
- ingenious
- insidious
- intricate
- inventive
- knotted
- knotty
- knowing
- laborious
- mean
- misleading
- operose
- pawky
- perfidious
- playful
- politic
- prankish
- precarious
- questionable
- quirky
- ready
- resourceful
- rigorous
- risky
- rocky
- roguish
- rotten
- rough
- rugged
- scheming
- sensitive
- serpentine
- severe
- shady
- shameless
- sharp
- shifty
- shrewd
- sinister
- slick
- slippery
- sly
- smooth
- snaky
- sneaky
- sophistical
- spiny
- sportive
- stealthy
- steep
- sticky
- strategic
- strenuous
- subtle
- supple
- surreptitious
- suspicious
- tactical
- thorny
- ticklish
- toilsome
- touch-and-go
- touchy
- tough
- treacherous
- tricksy
- two-faced
- uncertain
- unconscientious
- unconscionable
- undependable
- underhand
- underhanded
- unethical
- unfair
- unjust
- unprincipled
- unsavory
- unscrupulous
- unsportsmanlike
- uphill
- vulpine
- waggish
- wary
- wicked
- wily