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- noun Plural form of
mountebank . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
mountebank .
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Examples
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But, alas! there was only one bed to be had: all the rest were inhabited by smugglers, whom the people of the house called mountebanks; and with one of whom the lady of the den told
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
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But alas! there was only one bed to be had: all the rest were inhabited by smugglers, whom the people of the house called mountebanks; and with one of whom the lady of the den told Mr. Chute he might lie.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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The sleep of his reason did not even bring forth monsters: poor Koestler simply gave a fair wind and his once-valued imprimatur to a succession of pathetic quacks and mountebanks.
The Zealot 2009
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Rant forth, like mountebanks, on "heaven and hell!"
The Age Reviewed 2010
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Mr. Greenblatt describes in teeming detail the thousands of clergymen, nobles, lawyers and knights who, in Konstanz, jostled alongside a ragtag entourage of merchants, mountebanks, barbers and acrobats.
How the Secular World Began Eric Ormsby 2011
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But so too do lazy parents, mountebanks hawking educational drivel, inattentive, idle, or corrupt state legislators, greedy and unprincipled textbook companies, out-of-touch professors at schools of education, and incompetent or cowardly boards of education.
Willingham: 'Superman' is entertainment, nothing more Valerie Strauss 2010
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It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus.
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The sleep of his reason did not even bring forth monsters: poor Koestler simply gave a fair wind and his once-valued imprimatur to a succession of pathetic quacks and mountebanks.
The Zealot 2009
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Television, after all, is not a medium that promotes the careers of charlatans, nitwits and mountebanks, as I was remarking to Piers Morgan only the other day.
Football addicts will take whatever junk they can get | Harry Pearson 2011
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But it must be admitted that writers, like other mendicants and mountebanks, frequently do try to attract attention.
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