trickster

Example Sentences

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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

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