mountebank

Example Sentences

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Mencken described Bryan as “a charlatan, a mountebank, a zany without sense or dignity.”

From Salon • Jan. 25, 2024

Forget the Tinder swindler — how about the MI5 mountebank?

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2022

And Ricky goes to his library and then sends me an entire description of what the mountebank would be doing.”

From Slate • Dec. 10, 2018

“Fancy language, senator. I will duel you at dawn you charlatan, you mountebank, you mendacious flimflamming dissembler. Bring a pistol and a thesaurus,” he quipped.

From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2017

Was it not a dangerous word, too closely connected to Hobbes and to dubious stories about sympathetic magic told by Digby—someone whom John Evelyn, another early member, could dismiss as an arrant mountebank?

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton