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Word | Mountebank |
French Meaning | charlatan |
a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes / One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies / charlatan; boastful pretender / a person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan. / a dishonest person : a person who tricks and cheats other people, | |
Usage | ⇒ The mountebank had destroyed our spirits ⇒ The patent medicine man was a mountebank. ⇒ a gang of swindlers and mountebanks ⇒ He has been described as a ‘a mountebank , a charlatan and a scribbler’ by one author, although others see him as a proto-social scientist. |
Synonyms | charlatan, cheat, impostor, quack, swindler, con man, fraud, confidence man, trickster, fake, faker, humbug, deceiver, phony, pretender, hypocrite, imposter, rogue, quacksalver, clown, |
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