Sentence example with the word 'mountebank'

mountebank

artist, burlesque queen, con man, defrauder, female impersonator, guisard, impostor, peeler, pretender, saltimbanco, stripper

Definition n. a flamboyant deceiver

Last update: October 13, 2015


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The mountebank had destroyed our spirits.   [Please select]

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His figure is that of a grotesque mountebank, intended to inspire joy or drive away pain and sorrow, his hideousness being perhaps supposed actually to scare away the evil spirits.   [Please select]

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You fool, you thing in petticoats, you deceiver of women, you charlatan, you mountebank, go.   [Please select]

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They would not dare to attempt a bombardment: Chase was a liar, a mountebank, a dog.   [Please select]

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Smoke grenades burst among them, and now and then some resourceful mountebank would roll over.   [Please select]

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Peter was as thorough a mountebank, when he got started, as Blenkiron himself.   [Please select]

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"He is a mountebank--a meddler, that's what he is."   [Please select]

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If a major-general said, "Wagner was a mountebank in music," G.   [Please select]

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