Thesaurus / trickster
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There’s even a family-friendly matinee for budding tricksters.
THE BEST THINGS TO DO IN THE D.C. AREA THE WEEK OF SEPT. 2-8FRITZ HAHN, ANYING GUOSEPTEMBER 2, 2021WASHINGTON POSTSimilarly, 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.
THE MCU HAS A LONGSTANDING VILLAIN PROBLEM. LOKI’S INTRODUCTION OF JONATHAN MAJORS' KANG THE CONQUEROR MIGHT JUST SOLVE ITELIANA DOCKTERMANJULY 16, 2021TIMEThe 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.
THE ACTION-PACKED SAGA ‘MONKEY KING: JOURNEY TO THE WEST’ GETS A MODERN TAKEMICHAEL DIRDAMARCH 3, 2021WASHINGTON POSTRelative 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.
IN STARZ'S ENCHANTING THE LUMINARIES, FATE AND FREE WILL BATTLE AMID NEW ZEALAND'S GOLD RUSHJUDY BERMANFEBRUARY 12, 2021TIMEOnline tricksters have already found ways to wreak havoc with the site’s own tools.
CONSERVATIVES GRUMBLING ABOUT CENSORSHIP SAY THEY’RE FLOCKING TO PARLER. THEY TOLD US SO ON TWITTER.DREW HARWELL, RACHEL LERMANNOVEMBER 23, 2020WASHINGTON POSTThese men charged him with being a political trickster, and won most of his followers away from him.
HISTORIC ADVENTURESRUPERT S. HOLLANDHis lip curled contemptuously at sports that required a mere trickster's turn of the wrist or an animal's sense of direction.
THE HONORABLE PERCIVALALICE HEGAN RICEYes—and yet you accuse me of being a trickster, a scoundrel, and a fool, without knowing my works?
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 102, APRIL 23, 1892VARIOUSThe expert trickster of large luck and large fortune makes his way to Monte Carlo, the gambling Mecca of the world.
QUESTIONABLE AMUSEMENTS AND WORTHY SUBSTITUTESJ. M. JUDYHe was, to undisciplined or envious opponents, a "little magician," a trickster.
MARTIN VAN BURENEDWARD M. SHEPARDWORDS RELATED TO TRICKSTER
- actor
- attitudinizer
- backslider
- bigot
- bluffer
- casuist
- charlatan
- cheat
- con artist
- crook
- deceiver
- decoy
- dissembler
- dissimulator
- fake
- faker
- four-flusher
- fraud
- humbug
- hypocrite
- impostor
- informer
- lip server
- malingerer
- masquerader
- mountebank
- pharisee
- phony
- playactor
- poser
- pretender
- quack
- smoothie
- sophist
- swindler
- trickster
- two-face
- two-timer
- wolf in sheep's clothing
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