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
Tall tales: Dylan the trickster conspired with Scorsese to make up stuff according to whim.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 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
It’s hard for me to reconcile this Nansi with the trickster from the stories Ama used to tell me.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Vocabulary lists containing trickster
STAAR English II: Elements of Literature 2
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Lesson 3
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Craft and Structure Vocabulary, Unit 5
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