trickster

Example Sentences

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“They’re the tricksters of the movement — they make us laugh, and laughing is powerful,” said local Catholic activist Rosa Manriquez, who lives near Dodger Stadium.

From Los Angeles Times

Still, even for the producers who had experience helping Cohen achieve his trickster visions, this was uncharted territory.

From Los Angeles Times

Most Japanese schoolchildren know the kappa as a trickster who looks like a cross between a frog and a turtle with an indented head.

From New York Times

Central to Maya religion is Maximón, a trickster deity both benevolent and hedonistic.

From New York Times

In February, at a rare public address at the annual Munich Security Conference in Germany, Mr. Soros called the former president a “confidence trickster whose narcissism grew into a disease.”

From New York Times