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mountebank::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | charlatan |
| Type of | trickster, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, beguiler |
| Has types | craniologist, quack, phrenologist |
Examples of mountebank
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Dirksen's oratory became, in the end, something of a mountebank performance.
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L'elisir is that old story of the wily mountebank who peddles promises to the desperate poor.
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Jack Nicholson is either a mountebank or a highly gifted actor.
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It was impossible to dismiss him as a mountebank, a paper hanger.
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Ship this mountebank off to the Galapagos islands where he can study the Turtles and annoy nobody.
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The two children are eventually taken in by Ursus, a mountebank.
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Brown arrives, dressed in brown and carrying an aged brown leather bag that could belong to a 17th-century mountebank.
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Afraid of poverty and a drab existence, he chooses the life of a mountebank, even when it means giving up the woman of his dreams.
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He dressed gaudily, like a mountebank, and his house was a Noah's ark, owing to the strange miscellany of animals he kept there.
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- A flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes
- (The Mountebanks) The Mountebanks is a comic opera in two acts with music by Alfred Cellier and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It was first produced at the Lyric Theatre, London, on 4 January 1892, for a run of 229 performances. It then toured and also had a short Broadway run in 1893. ...
- One who sells dubious medicines; One who sells by deception; a con artist; a charlatan; To act as a mountebank
- (mountebanks) fake doctors who sell quack medicine. (Othello)
- The man with the sales pitch before the show in a street environment. Classically selling remedy for snake bite. Often he/she is a Charlatan.
- A confidence artist. The meaning of the term derives from the practice of a man who mounted a bench in a public place such as a market in order to boast about fake medicine or similar goods for sale.
- Seller if ineffectual patent medicines
- Quack, seller of false potions, usually accompanied by a clown or monkey, stands on mount, bank or stage to make a (medicine) show
