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mountebankery

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[maun-tuh-bangk-er-ee] / ˈmaʊn təˌbæŋk ər i /

noun

  1. the actions of, or characteristic of, a mountebank; charlatanism.


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Next day the Mirror publicly gloated over the success of its mountebankery.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is no fun going on now-a-days—no quackery, no mountebankery, no asses, colonial or otherwise.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various

He could forgive every other sort of mountebankery, but not that.

From The Antichrist by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

I wish I could fathom Aunt Jessica's reasons for her attempts at involving me in her social mountebankery.

From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke

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