Trickiness [noun]

We can't prove she showed any trickiness in having you for a cousin.

He called upon all his shrewdness, all his trickiness of the South.

The keenest Yankee that ever skinned a flint, cannot approach him in trickiness.

He abhorred ostentatious display and trickiness in a teacher.

Avoid also any appearance of trickiness or sharp practice, stories of shrewd bargains, etc.

Fought for it fairly when fairness served best, and trickily when trickiness seemed more profitable.

The girl showed great powers of duplicity, all the trickiness of a parvenue, to be quite frank.

A second objection to Hobbema's method may be mentioned besides its "trickiness."

The church is "gingerly handled," but the clergy are derided for immorality, hypocrisy, and trickiness.

Discernment, in undergoing this degradation, becomes the trickiness which seeks to equal it, without succeeding in doing so.