trickster

Example Sentences

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Are these machines stochastic parrots, or alien intelligences, or fraudulent tricksters?

From New York Times

Evolution is a dynamic process that can sometimes defy logic, but even trickster flowers from South Africa have something to teach us about the intricacies of life on Earth.

From Salon

A careworn clutch of country odes to booze or wildflowers and trickster warnings about lust or death, it is a fitting capstone for an artist who rarely cared if he sang only for himself.

From New York Times

RELATED: Six degrees of sedition: Was master trickster Roger Stone behind the Capitol riot?

From Salon

In particular, Cowboy Bebop the anime wasn’t particularly nice to queer characters, framing them as jokes to ridicule or tricksters to be repulsed by.

From The Verge