mountebank in English

noun
1
a person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan.
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.
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1. S'il vous plaît indeed, you silly mountebank.

2. 3 The nation was led astray by a mountebank.

3. Politically, Mr Ashdown is a mountebank, not a moralist.

4. 1 Politically, Mr Ashdown is a mountebank, not a moralist.

5. 7 He hated being the object of public attention and ridicule like some fairground mountebank.

6. Are you allowing yourselves to be fooled by this mountebank, this harlequin?

7. She was to marry this mountebank, this hypocritical toad of a Sir Thomas.

8. 6 Are you allowing yourselves to be fooled by this mountebank, this harlequin?

9. 2 She was to marry this mountebank, this hypocritical toad of a Sir Thomas.

10. 13 I feared the woman had no better thought than to make a mountebank of her child!

11. 4 I remember ... there was an impudent mountebank who sold pills which were very good against an earthquake"."

12. 10 Patients must not worry, if pursued to the root, quick, very easy on the mountebank of when, not be achieved.

13. 11 "Well said again! " cried good Mr. Wilson. "I feared the woman had no better thought than to make a mountebank of her child! "

14. 9 Patients must not worry, if pursued to the root, quick, very easy on mountebank of when,(www.Sentencedict.com) not be achieved.

15. This German Socialism, which took its schoolboy task so seriously and solemnly, and extolled its poor stock-in-trade in such mountebank fashion, meanwhile gradually lost its pedantic innocence.

16. All along, he was an Audacious mountebank and a mendacious bully, who knew almost nothing about actual existing communism and who never identified a single Soviet agent.

17. 5 I remember. there was an impudent mountebank who sold pills which(as he told the country people)were very good against an earthquake(Joseph Addison.

18. Charlatan (plural Charlatans) A mountebank, someone who addresses crowds in the street; (especially), an itinerant seller of medicines or drugs1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol I, ch

19. 12 This German Socialism, which took its schoolboy task so seriously and solemnly, and extolled its poor stock-in-trade in such mountebank fashion, meanwhile gradually lost its pedantic innocence.

20. 8 The two children, picked up by some policeman and placed in the refuge, or stolen by some mountebank, or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, did not return.

21. • A Charlatan (also called swindler or mountebank) is a person practicing quackery or some similar confidence trick in order to obtain money Synonyms of “Charlatan” Using a synonym can be a good alternative for using “Charlatan”.

22. A Charlatan (also called a swindler or mountebank) is a person practicing quackery or some similar confidence trick or deception in order to obtain money, fame, or other advantages via some form of pretense or deception