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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a tricky man" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is cunning, deceitful, or difficult to deal with in a particular situation.
Example: "Everyone in the office knows that dealing with Tom is challenging because he is a tricky man who often changes the rules."
Alternatives: "a sly individual" or "a deceitful person".
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That depends on whether they can first dispatch their newer nemeses in a tricky men's draw, which was announced Thursday, not to mention erase nagging doubts about their games.
Worse, says Steven Law, the president of both American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS, Mr Obama is a particularly tricky man to tear down.
A tricky no man's land he's in, wherein he has walked all his days, on the principle that life is short and meaningless and one must amass what one can, enjoy it, and die whenever.
So I was like, 'Well that's gotta be kind of tricky, man.
A: Tricky.
The Oscars live in a tricky no-man's land between the real and the imagined.
But if you hold onto the pill and give your tricky men time to do their thing in the other mob's 20, then points will come.
He became known, soon enough, for what he was - a crook, a liar, an accomplice of underworld figures, a spiteful, tricky, brutish man whose professional life is yet another reminder that virtue is not by any means a prerequisite for financial success.
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At each meeting they outlined in detail the BM's ambition: to put on the West's first big show about the haj, the annual holy pilgrimage to Mecca.In this section Journey of faith The music man A tricky business ReprintsAll three royals were enthusiastic, which meant the project also had the king's support.
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