Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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 Locke, William John

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