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
For a while now, I’ve been interested in Baba Yaga as an example of this female trickster that pops up in folklore and mythology.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 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
Nansi was one of her favorite story topics—she’d tell me about the trickster god cutting deals, bending the rules, and weaving schemes as intricate as a spiderweb between tree branches.
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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