Mountebank is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MOUNTEBANK in dictionary:

VERB:
• to act as a mountebank
• To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.
• To play the mountebank.
NOUN:
• a person who sells quack medicines from a platform; a charlatan
• a person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan.
• a person who sold patent medicines in public places.
• 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; a quack doctor.
• Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
• a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes

Words related to MOUNTEBANK

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Words that contain MOUNTEBANK

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How to use MOUNTEBANK in a sentence

• He is something more than a mountebank of the booths, trained to walk the tight rope and stand on his head.
• With these exceptions, the whole of the rest of the travellers were crowding around the person of the mountebank.
• I have taken my leave of that stage, and henceforth will mountebank it no longer.
• The people were ready to tear the mountebank to pieces.
• You would smile at my rhetoric and call me a mountebank, but I am succeeding.
• The present mountebank, it is true, seems more hardy in his experiments, and boasts of being able to cause disorders in the human frame, as well as to remove them.
• People are quite ready to listen to the philosophers for a little amusement, just as they would listen to a fiddler or a mountebank.
• Grimes and taken the plotters into custody, the next task was to locate Strong, the mountebank, and to solve the mystery of the box.
• Schlegel and other educators tried in vain to make the multitude believe that the vulgar mountebank could never fulfill their expectations.
• I replied that it would take more than such a wretched mountebank as he could do to frighten me, and showed him my revolver, which, until the fear was over, had escaped my memory.
• Farrinder had looked at Verena Tarrant as if she were a mountebank, there was some excuse for it, inasmuch as the girl made much the same impression on Basil Ransom.
• He was considered a clever mountebank and a good doctor.
• The mountebank is wanted in the streets, the jester at the Louvre.
• In appropriating him to the profession of mountebank nothing had been neglected.
• With that exception their success became so great that no mountebank memory could recall its parallel.
• Thus was it done for Lord Alla, King of Northumberland, who was also a mountebank.
• Now the stride from a cardinal to a pope is less than that from a mountebank to a peer of England.
• He was casting the mountebank, and becoming the peer.
• Dressed like a gentleman! You in fine clothes! Why not? You are a mountebank.
• A mountebank and a monster! The double attraction is too powerful to be resisted.
• Those scenes, however, are open at present, and there our young students listen to mountebank oratory.
• The man was a mountebank, nothing more, Stephen had decided, and his strange power was simply the reaction of mob hysteria to the stage tricks of the political clown.
• Now for their skill, besides what hath been before-mentioned, and common to them with the Mountebank, viz.
• She is the strolling singer or mountebank of the Immortals.
• Gough, without coming to the conclusion that he is nothing more than a theatrical mountebank.

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