tricklike

English

Etymology

From trick +‎ -like.

Adjective

tricklike (comparative more tricklike, superlative most tricklike)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a trick.
   • 2000, Paul Magee, From Here to Tierra Del Fuego, page 38:

     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.