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Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n.

Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak.

One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.

Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; trickish; treacherous; fraudulent; -- applied to persons or things. I. Taylor. -- Fraud"ful*ly, adv.

The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness. Hooker.

Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person. [Slang, U. S.] Gouge bit, a boring bit, shaped like a gouge.

A mean, trickish fellow. Bp. Hall.

A spirit of deception; cajolery; trickishness.

Trickish; artful. [Obs.] -- Knack"ish*ness, n. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Having a knack; cunning; crafty; trickish. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.

Like or characteristic of a knave; given to knavery; trickish; fraudulent; dishonest; villainous; as, a knavish fellow, or a knavish trick. "Knavish politicians." Macaulay.

A mean, trickish fellow; a base, dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster. For I have sense to serve my turn in store, And he's a rascal who pretends to more. Dryden.

The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud.

Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty. Our rascally porter is fallen fast asleep. Swift.

A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper. Wycherley.

A trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way. [Slang, U.S.]

Exhibiting artfulness; trickish. "My tricksy spirit!" Shak. he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for state wisdom. Coleridge.

Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.

Full of wiles; trickish; deceitful.