Vocabulary Word
Word: trickster
Definition: person who cheats people
Definition: person who cheats people
Sentences Containing 'trickster'
But what the duchess marvelled at above all was that Sancho's simplicity could be so great as to make him believe as absolute truth that Dulcinea had been enchanted, when it was he himself who had been the enchanter and trickster in the business.
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