Synonyms for trickster

Grammar : Noun

Spell : trik-ster

Phonetic Transcription : ˈtrɪk stər

Définition of trickster

Origin : 1711, from trick (n.) + -ster.

noun fraud

Example sentences :

It was a wily trap he had set me, worthy only of a trickster.
Extract from : « Bardelys the Magnificent » by Rafael Sabatini

Could any trickster perform in the dark with such precision and gentleness?
Extract from : « The Shadow World » by Hamlin Garland

I took him for a trickster, who wanted to get me ashore and jail me.
Extract from : « The Art of Disappearing » by John Talbot Smith

They even would have Trickster Tim to apologise and shake me by the hand.
Extract from : « Athelstane Ford » by Allen Upward

With that I walked out of the cabin, Trickster Tim following at my heels.
Extract from : « Athelstane Ford » by Allen Upward

What is there that he cannot, that he will not do, the trickster, the magician!
Extract from : « The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano » by Ludwig Tieck

"A trick for the trickster," said L'Estrange to the Austrian prince.
Extract from : « My Novel, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Was the man a trickster, it must be more for the love than the lucre.
Extract from : « The Confidence-Man » by Herman Melville

It was the worst I was guilty of, but it was a trick, and it branded me trickster.
Extract from : « Diana of the Crossways, Complete » by George Meredith

Where art thou, trickster, that I may vent my fury upon thee?
Extract from : « Faustus » by Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger

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