trickster vs misleader

misleader vs trickster

trickster and misleader both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
trickster	Yes	No	No	No
misleader	Yes	No	No	No

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

trickster: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
misleader: someone who leads astray (often deliberately)

Other hyponyms of trickster include bluffer, four-flusher, chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler, decoy, steerer, dodger, fox, slyboots, betrayer, double-crosser, 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, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

trickster (noun)	misleader (noun)
someone who plays practical jokes on others	someone who leads astray (often deliberately)
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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