Can you imagine the great doctor the dupe of a mere trickster?

But the full sunlight of our republican life leaves no lurking-place for the mere trickster.

Auri was no mere trickster.

His lip curled contemptuously at sports that required a mere trickster's turn of the wrist or an animal's sense of direction.

That public often condescends to be trifled with by mere tricksters, but, believe me, it is only a condescension and very contemptuous.