Sentence examples for mountebank from inspiring English sources
The word "mountebank" is a correct and usable word in written English
It means "a person who deceives others, typically by a speaking a crafty or glib speech in order to sell fraudulent goods or services". For example, "The mountebank was able to convince thousands of people into buying his fake healing potions."
noun
One who sells dubious medicines.
- There is nothing so impossible in Nature but mountebanks will undertake
No, the horrendous ticket prices top seat rates respectively ASch4,200 ($340) and DM320 ($180)—have not been cut; nor have audiences abandoned evening dress, though the occasional mountebank in mufti can be spied these days at either shrine.The change is more basic than that and has to do with the character of the two festivals.
In Robert Altman's Buffalo Bill and the Indians, he was a Western legend revealed as a mountebank.
However, now that UK regulators have seen Australia take such a dim view of Reckitt's mountebank marketing, they may take note.
And Mamet had a bit of the mountebank in him.
"People said, 'Oh, Jeffrey Archer, he's such a mountebank,' " Metcalfe recalled.
Repeated hits earn a dealer a reputation for being a magus or a mountebank, depending on who's talking.
When one looks back a century, what surprises is not how much the world has changed, but how little.In this section Monarchs and mountebanks Poetic injustice Expelled from Eden Asia in the rough The century the earth stood still Earth to Kalmykia, come in please Unplundering art In the dark You think that's funny?
There is a longstanding transatlantic trade in tactics and policy ideas, and in consultants, pollsters and other political mountebanks.
Though he was aware of the stratagems mountebanks used to hoodwink the gullible, Crookes was unable to retain a healthy scepticism and indeed became infatuated with Florence Cook, a teenage medium.
The stuff, in other words, of every 18th-century marine painting, the storms mostly imagined.In this section Monarchs and mountebanks Poetic injustice Expelled from Eden Asia in the rough The century the earth stood still Earth to Kalmykia, come in please Unplundering art In the dark You think that's funny?
Those magical mushrooms A three-way world CARICATURE CONTEST Monarchs and mountebanks Poetic injustice Expelled from Eden ReprintsIt is time for a rethink from first premises.
