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mountebank

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10 lettersPronunciation /ˈmaʊntəˌbæŋk/Part of speech nounSorted abekmnnotuStarts with MEnds with K0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes

Word origin

From archaic Italian montambanco (“quack who mounts a bench to hawk his wares”), contracted from monta-in-banco (“mount on bench”).

Used in a sentence

  • She is abus'd, ſtolne from me, and corrupted / By Spels, and Medicines, bought of Mountebanks
  • Donne was a mountebank who wrapped up his lack of meaning in hard words.
  • Gary Dahl, the man behind that scheme—described variously as a marketing genius and a genial mountebank—died on March 23 at 78.

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