tricklike

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adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a trick.

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Meanings

adjectivetricklike (comparative more tricklike, superlative most tricklike)

comparative more tricklike · superlative most tricklike

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a trick.

    The anecdotes they coin, whether in half-hearted travelogues or in cynical Benetton catalogues, invoke that developmental schema to recapitulate the West's erstwhile commodity enchantment through its tricklike discovery in the past-as-present eyes of the enchanted Other.

    2000, Paul Magee, From Here to Tierra Del Fuego, page 38

Origin

From trick + -like.

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APA

tricklike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tricklike

MLA

“tricklike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tricklike. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tricklike,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tricklike.

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