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

For a while now, I’ve been interested in Baba Yaga as an example of this female trickster that pops up in folklore and mythology.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 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

But I cry now—for the first time in years—in the underground corridor of the Ghanaian underworld, all while the ancestral spirit of my grandmother protects me from a trickster god.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer