trickishness

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Noun
  • In her four years on Bravo, the baby girl of Summer House has experienced duplicity, vitriol, and audacity (sometimes all at once from Lindsay Hubbard), but that couldn’t have prepared her for the Peacock competition series.
    Zoë Haylock, Vulture, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Queen’s duplicity and thirst for vengeance make a stunning showcase for Lewek’s electric sense of drama, brilliant tone, and spitfire technique.
    Matthew Gurewitsch, airmail.news, 17 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Gilded by privilege and cunning, Glinda is a popular young woman who desires to wield magic.
    Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 23 Jan. 2025
  • There’s an unapologetic cunning at the heart of this series, and a mercurial spirit that’s as slippery as blood on an Italian marble floor.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • His characteristics are based on short, neat passes, providing guile to unpick deep-sitting blocks and work in tight areas.
    Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The former Watford midfielder brings energy to the press but lacks guile, and with his contract up at the end of the season, the 32-year-old looks like a stop-gap.
    Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Moore’s radical departure from his own 2023 assessment demonstrates a dishonesty and expediency that represents the antithesis of Maryland’s sharp but collegial politics under Hogan and his Democratic colleagues.
    Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2025
  • But the thought of a person who spreads the kind of dishonesty, quackery and junk science that Kennedy habitually does — especially about our precious kiddos — is nothing short of stomach churning.
    S.E. Cupp, New York Daily News, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Yet the findings of science challenged this way of thinking, and Kingsley grew increasingly uneasy with the deceit and parasitism science uncovered in the natural world.
    Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 29 Jan. 2025
  • These, puppet masters could win an Emmy Award through deceit and coercion to further their own goals at the expense of others.
    Jason Walker, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • But as someone who would drive the lane, Maxwell respected how the big man understood his craft.
    Daniel Brown, The Athletic, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Every show from the New York designer is a celebration of craft, and this one felt deeply referential in its call for reflection.
    Essence, Essence, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Through his double-dealing with the government, Carmine Falcone was Gotham’s top crime boss for over two decades, accruing massive wealth, political influence, and an elite status.
    Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 21 Oct. 2024
  • While the Biden Administration seems to perceive Cambodia as an amenable partner, Manet is double-dealing Beijing and Washington.
    Sam Rainsy, TIME, 24 June 2024
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