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Definitioner
Substantiv
- One who sells dubious medicines.
- One who sells by deception; a con artist; a charlatan.
Verb
- (intransitive) To act as a mountebank.
- (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.
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