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

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

The mouse is a trickster and the ox is loyal.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2024

Something Nyame said back when he’d confined the still-complaining trickster god.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia