A lifestyle guru is a modern sort of mountebank, selling quack advice instead of false medicines. |
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Is this not the age of the mountebank, of the spin-doctor and his big lies? |
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He was, in fact, a charlatan, a mountebank, a zany without any shame or dignity. |
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Repeated hits earn a dealer a reputation for being a magus or a mountebank, depending on who's talking. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Whitman, so deeply sensuous that his poetry has the emotive compulsion of the fairground mountebank, was famous enough to be used in advertisements. |
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However, now that UK regulators have seen Australia take such a dim view of Reckitt's mountebank marketing, they may take note. |
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What could that mountebank of a preacher have said to turn his mind so? |
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In Robert Altman's Buffalo Bill and the Indians, he was a Western legend revealed as a mountebank. |
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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. |
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