trickster

Example Sentences

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Watching a trickster hypnotize someone in a live performance might impress you.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

The work in question is a "maqāma" -- an Arabic literary form that often features a wandering "trickster."

From Science Daily • Nov. 11, 2025

The former excels at playing the earthy, sly, seductive trickster, the latter, the pompous, self-important rich boy.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2024

Crudup plays 19 characters in the 80-minute performance, taking on the roles of everyone the titular confidence trickster comes into contact with.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2024

The people flocked to the abandoned Greek camp to see the sights: here Achilles had sulked so long; there Agamemnon’s tent had stood; this was the quarters of the trickster, Odysseus.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton