trickster, n.
(tricksters)
(tricksters)
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
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someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
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beguiler cheat cheater deceiver slicker trickster
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bluffer, four-flusher
swindler, defrauder, chiseller, chiseler, gouger, scammer, grifter
decoy, steerer
fox, dodger, slyboots
double-crosser, double-dealer, two-timer, betrayer, traitor
embezzler, defalcator, peculator
falsifier
finagler, wangler
forger, counterfeiter
fortune hunter
front, front man, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman
hypocrite, phony, dissembler, dissimulator, phoney, pretender
impersonator, imitator
fraud, faker, imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player
liar, prevaricator
misleader
charlatan, mountebank
obscurantist
sandbagger
two-timer
utterer
someone who plays practical jokes on others
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cut-up hoaxer practical joker prankster tricker trickster
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