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trickster

noun as in fraud

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There’s even a family-friendly matinee for budding tricksters.

Similarly, Loki became an instant fan favorite villain not only because of Tom Hiddleston’s over-the-top Shakespearean delivery of the trickster god’s lines but because he had a heart.

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The marvel-filled narrative — 100 chapters in the original — derives from popular tales and dramas about a shape-changing trickster and proto-superhero who happens to be a talking monkey.

Relative innocents who’ve come to seek their fortunes in the gold fields, Anna and Emery are soon waylaid by the savvy tricksters who flourish in such communities.

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Online tricksters have already found ways to wreak havoc with the site’s own tools.

His youngest son, Orange Scott, was a rough-and-tumble trickster and a terrible tease.

Either it was unintentional or she is the smoothest trickster ever, because she never reacts to it.

Mind-Blowing Bicycle Magic Trickster Tim Knoll is definitely the new cool kid in town.

But as with everything Sugimotesque, I think his trickster self is at work.

Elvira has recently been deceived by Giovanni—and decides to seek vengeance by publicly outing him as the trickster whom he is.

These men charged him with being a political trickster, and won most of his followers away from him.

His lip curled contemptuously at sports that required a mere trickster's turn of the wrist or an animal's sense of direction.

Yes—and yet you accuse me of being a trickster, a scoundrel, and a fool, without knowing my works?

The expert trickster of large luck and large fortune makes his way to Monte Carlo, the gambling Mecca of the world.

He was, to undisciplined or envious opponents, a "little magician," a trickster.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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