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trickster

noun as in fraud

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Sprawling compounds where internet tricksters target people with romance and business cons have thrived along Myanmar's loosely governed border during its civil war, sparked by a 2021 coup.

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“I am determined to fight these Chinese in court. They are tricksters.”

The player gets played only when Dawson is challenged by a trickster even more devious than her.

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Not exercising responsibility for safeguarding the property of the evacuees allowed “an interval of golden opportunity to swindlers and tricksters who had a terrified group of people at their mercy,” according to the apology.

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Tall tales: Dylan the trickster conspired with Scorsese to make up stuff according to whim.

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