mountebank
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You'd better stop mountebanking round this town and clear out as soon as you can .
From Time Magazine Archive
And tells me, if you please, of his likewise choosing to go ragged and naked, and grimy—maskerading, mountebanking, in what is the real hard lot of thousands and thousands!
From Tom Tiddler's Ground by Dickens, Charles
We don't want any of that sort of mountebanking in England.
From The Roll-Call by Bennett, Arnold
“How does it happen, sir,” said the Commissary, swelling in person, “that I find you mountebanking in a public caf� without my permission?”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
He recalled his first talk with Bakkus, in which he had insisted that his mountebanking was an art, and with his hard-gained knowledge of life rejected the sophistry.
From The Mountebank by Locke, William John
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