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Trickster

noun

Someone who plays practical jokes on others. Synonyms: cut-up, hoaxer, practical joker, prankster, tricker.

Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true. Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker.

A mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts.

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"Trickster" Quotes from Famous Books

... Carter, you and I believe that these things are done by some clever trickster. It may be that some bogus medium who used to get the colonel's good money away from him, wants more of it, and is taking this means of driving my uncle back to the ...

— The Crime of the French Cafe and Other Stories • Nicholas Carter

... Josiah Crabtree, you are a trickster of the first water, but if I can prevent your trickery I am going to do it." Tom turned to Mrs. Stanhope, who was now crying violently. "Won't you go below and let me have ...

— The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes • Arthur M. Winfield

... Crailey Gray the first to enlist, and as for myself, I've raised sixty men in the country, and I want forty more from Rouen, in order to offer the Governor a full company. So it's come to 'the King, not the man'; Polk is a pitiful trickster, but the country needs her sons; that's enough for us to know; and while I won't drink to James Polk "—he plunged a cup in the bowl and drew it out brimming—"I'll empty ...

— The Two Vanrevels • Booth Tarkington

... child of a Trachinian sire, Henceforth will take good care, from far away To look on Troy and Atreus' children twain. Yea, where the trickster lords it o'er the just, And goodness languishes and rascals rule, —Such courses I will nevermore endure. But rock-bound Scyros henceforth shall suffice To yield me full contentment in my home. Now, to my vessel! And thou, Poeas' child, Farewell, right ...

— The Seven Plays in English Verse • Sophocles

... Metternich, the inveterate trickster, does not appear to have had any serious thought of encouraging the project of making the Duke Emperor of the French. His subtle game was to use him as a terror to Louis Philippe when that monarch became refractory ...

— The Tragedy of St. Helena • Walter Runciman

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