Tricksiness is an English word. Below you'll find 3 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tricksiness in a sentence
Tricksiness meaning
The quality or state of being tricksy.
Using Tricksiness
- The main meaning on this page is: The quality or state of being tricksy.
- In the example corpus, tricksiness often appears in combinations such as: tricksiness is.
Context around Tricksiness
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tricksiness
- In this selection, "tricksiness" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, postmodern stand out and add context to how "tricksiness" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include all this tricksiness is embedded and as postmodern tricksiness. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tricksiness" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aacl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tricksiness
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He characterizes its convoluted narrative technique as "postmodern tricksiness". (9 words)
What’s delightful is how all this tricksiness is embedded in the cosily familiar conventions of vaudevillian farce. (18 words)
His work at that time may have been earning him notoriety, but it wasn’t earning him any money, and the necessity of his tricksiness is a hard smack at the lack of societal support for the arts and artists at the beginning of their careers. (46 words)
His work at that time may have been earning him notoriety, but it wasn’t earning him any money, and the necessity of his tricksiness is a hard smack at the lack of societal support for the arts and artists at the beginning of their careers. (46 words)
What’s delightful is how all this tricksiness is embedded in the cosily familiar conventions of vaudevillian farce. (18 words)
He characterizes its convoluted narrative technique as "postmodern tricksiness". (9 words)
Example sentences (3)
His work at that time may have been earning him notoriety, but it wasn’t earning him any money, and the necessity of his tricksiness is a hard smack at the lack of societal support for the arts and artists at the beginning of their careers.
What’s delightful is how all this tricksiness is embedded in the cosily familiar conventions of vaudevillian farce.
He characterizes its convoluted narrative technique as "postmodern tricksiness".
Common combinations with tricksiness
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- tricksiness is 2×