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mountebank
[ moun-tuh-bangk ]
noun
- a person who sells quack medicines, as from a platform in public places, attracting and influencing an audience by tricks, storytelling, etc.
Synonyms:
- any charlatan or quack.
Synonyms: , ,
verb (used without object)
- to act or operate as a mountebank.
mountebank
/ ˈʊԳɪˌæŋ /
noun
- (formerly) a person who sold quack medicines in public places
- a charlatan; fake
verb
- intr to play the mountebank
Derived Forms
- ˌdzܲԳٱˈ, noun
Other yvlog Forms
- dzܲ·ٱ··· [moun, -t, uh, -bangk-, uh, -ree], noun
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of mountebank1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of mountebank1
Example Sentences
Mencken described Bryan as “a charlatan, a mountebank, a zany without sense or dignity.”
“He was, in fact, a charlatan, a mountebank . . .” But, unlike Bryan and Trump, Kissinger had a deep sense of purpose.
The Republican, who is angling for the GOP nomination for president, staged a roundtable of scientific mountebanks on Wednesday to attack the vaccines.
Jay was so enamored of Malini that he devoted an entire chapter of his book, “Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women,” to the man he described as the “last of the mountebanks.”
In this world in which self-interested mountebanks command followers on social media and the airwaves by the millions, it doesn’t take much for a misinformation and disinformation campaign to cloud people’s minds.
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