trickster vs double-crosser

double-crosser vs trickster

trickster and double-crosser both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
trickster	Yes	No	No	No
double-crosser	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, double-crosser is a hyponym of trickster; that is, double-crosser is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than trickster:

trickster: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
double-crosser: a person who says one thing and does another

Other hyponyms of trickster include bluffer, four-flusher, chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler, decoy, steerer, dodger, fox, slyboots, betrayer, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer, defalcator, embezzler, peculator, falsifier, finagler, wangler, counterfeiter, forger, fortune hunter, figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman, dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender, imitator, impersonator, fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, liar, prevaricator, misleader, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

trickster (noun)	double-crosser (noun)
someone who plays practical jokes on others	a person who says one thing and does another
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
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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