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How to use mountebank in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word mountebank? Here are some examples.

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A lifestyle guru is a modern sort of mountebank, selling quack advice instead of false medicines.
Is this not the age of the mountebank, of the spin-doctor and his big lies?
He was, in fact, a charlatan, a mountebank, a zany without any shame or dignity.
Repeated hits earn a dealer a reputation for being a magus or a mountebank, depending on who's talking.
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.
And you, editors of my beloved Book Review, without which no weekend would be complete, should be ashamed, deeply so, for giving this mountebank such unwarranted attention.
Whitman, so deeply sensuous that his poetry has the emotive compulsion of the fairground mountebank, was famous enough to be used in advertisements.
However, now that UK regulators have seen Australia take such a dim view of Reckitt's mountebank marketing, they may take note.
What could that mountebank of a preacher have said to turn his mind so?
In Robert Altman's Buffalo Bill and the Indians, he was a Western legend revealed as a mountebank.
They are no longer to be amused according to custom, as a mob with the cant of a mountebank, and the leapings, friskings, gambols, and stale jests of tumblers and clowns.
Examples from Classical Literature
But his chief delight was in pursuing the profession of a juggler, mountebank, or merry-andrew, among the lowest rabble.
He went into the market and found a mountebank there, which was what he wanted.
I feared the woman had no better thought than to make a mountebank of her child!
It is profane to associate Jeanne's pure and beautiful name with that of a mountebank.
If I were a mountebank or a charlatan I would claim that it cures a hundred diseases.
It was not of the least use to me that I knew he was not the illustrious general, but simply a mountebank.
Anything less would condemn a man as a fool or a mountebank.
But his natural gift was to be a mountebank, a clown, a circus Hercules.
You must often have had your head against this mountebank jacket of mine.
This starveling mountebank was old, impudent, and repulsively cheery.
The central action of the play is set into motion when Volpone, the fox, disguises himself as a mountebank in order to hawk his Oglio del Scoto in the Venetian piazza.
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