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Meanings of tricksters in inglês

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трикстер
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trickster
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trickster

Literary archetype.

        trickster
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        Examples for "trickery"
        Examples for "trickery"
        1
        The result is teasingly brilliant and prefigures some of postmodernism's best trickery.
        The Guardian
        2
        His trickery and pace on the flank caused Motherwell problems all game.
        BBC
        3
        The speed humps and one-way systems added a new layer of trickery.
        The water room
        4
        Beatrice studied the document, and in silence canvassed the possibilities of trickery.
        In the Year of Jubilee
        5
        This makes the cultivation of the love of trickery the more dangerous.
        America, Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat
        1
        However, although a trickster, Raven also created humanity from wood and clay.
        A Wiccan Bible
        2
        Its weighty subject matter is leavened by Rivera's trickster-like sense of humor.
        Wired
        3
        But Mock Duck to the end was a rogue and a trickster.
        The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp
        4
        Could any trickster perform in the dark with such precision and gentleness?
        The Shadow World
        5
        I wasn't a warrior like Ash or a brilliant trickster like Puck.
        The iron king
        Usage of tricksters in inglês
        1
        You're spiritual con men, confidence tricksters offering false faith and false hope.
        Just another judgement day
        2
        That was why and how, so far, he had beaten the tricksters.
        The World for Sale, Volume 2.
        3
        It is not all women but all female confidence tricksters I abjure.
        Rogues
        4
        It's hard to keep one's hands off some of the professional tricksters.
        Vane of the Timberlands
        5
        However, technology is now catching up with even the most audacious photographic tricksters.
        BBC
        6
        The Whigs were known to be feeble; they were looked upon as tricksters.
        Coningsby; Or, The New Generation
        7
        As tricksters, kitsune often target pride and greed, taking people down a peg.
        John Winchester’s Journal
        8
        It just goes to show: all writers are liars, tricksters, illusionists.
        The Irish Times
        9
        As well as credible organisers, the Acid House movement threw up untold tricksters.
        Class of 88
        10
        I saw that they were tricksters, but I said to myself: 'What harm!
        Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero
        11
        They're getting paid for it as dirty tricksters for some political action assholes.
        Raging Heat
        12
        And there were tricks and tricksters in the old days.
        The Ramrodders: A Novel
        13
        These few tricksters said: We will arbitrarily manufacture these chips-stocks.
        Friday, the Thirteenth: A Novel
        14
        Hong Kong is at last -from the Imperialist tricksters!
        The new yorker
        15
        I fear liars, and I fear tricksters, and worst I fear the bitter truth.
        The Left Hand of Darkness
        16
        The train turned a bend and the two tricksters disappeared from our ken forever.
        The dog said bow-wow
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        português
        trickster
        Tricksters through the time