Synonymer

Uttal

  • UttalUS
  • Okänd accent:
    • IPA: /ˈmaʊntəˌbæŋk/

Ingen översättning hittades i den valda målspråket.

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Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. One who sells dubious medicines.
  2. One who sells by deception; a con artist; a charlatan.

Verb

  1. (intransitive) To act as a mountebank.
  2. (transitive) To cheat by boasting and false pretenses.

Exempel

  • There is nothing so impossible in Nature but mountebanks will undertake; nothing so incredible but they will affirm. - John Bull
  • “Are you allowing yourselves to be fooled by this mountebank, this harlequin? Do you cringe before a religion compounded of clouds and moonbeams? This man is an imposter and the Galactic Spirit he speaks of a fraud of the imagination devised to——”
  • In the meantime, the mountebank, standing in the midst of the courtyard, raised his grotesque hat, and made us a very ceremonious bow, paying his compliments very volubly in execrable French, and German not much better.

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticipmountebanked
Imperfektmountebanked
Presensparticipmountebanking
Pluralmountebanks
Tredje person singular indicativ presensmountebanks