Mountebankery
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Mountebankery is a noun meaning The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
Meaning
The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
Example Sentences
I have already alluded to "strawing," which can hardly be described as quackery. It is rather a piece of mountebankery. […] The strawer offers to sell any passer by in the streets a straw and give the purchaser a paper which he dares not sell. Accordingly as he judges of the character of his audience, so he intimates that the paper is political, libellous, irreligious, or indecent.
Word Forms
- mountebankeries
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mountebankism, quackery, jactitation, patchery, bamboozle, charlatanism.
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