mountebank
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Mencken described Bryan as “a charlatan, a mountebank, a zany without sense or dignity.”
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2024
“Some dreadful mountebank in a long-tailed coat will open . . . with a windy speech; then another mountebank will repeat the same rubbish in other words.”
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 27, 2016
The mountebank is eventually exposed, of course, and love triumphs in the two-act show, which is swiftly paced under Brian B. Crowe’s smart direction.
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2014
I’ve often heard it expressed that he must be a mountebank, since no single person could be doing as many things as he does.
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2011
Was it not a dangerous word, too closely connected to Hobbes and to dubious stories about sympathetic magic told by Digby—someone whom John Evelyn, another early member, could dismiss as an arrant mountebank?
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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