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
The former excels at playing the earthy, sly, seductive trickster, the latter, the pompous, self-important rich boy.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 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 not like we can send the police down to Asamando to arrest a certain trickster god.
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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