At times Cord's own'talents verged on mountebankery. and the best of mountebanks had no little skill at thievery and its adjunctive crafts. From Wordnik.com. [Night Arrant]
He could forgive every other sort of mountebankery, but not that. From Wordnik.com. [The Antichrist] Reference
I wish I could fathom Aunt Jessica's reasons for her attempts at involving me in her social mountebankery. From Wordnik.com. [The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel] Reference
I must insist on this, so that you can recognize that the young and successful mountebank, although dead set on the perfection of his mountebankery, and, in serious fact, never dreaming of. From Wordnik.com. [The Mountebank] Reference
Much was required of him in a world where a high fantastical acrobatic mountebankery was almost a matter of ceremony, where riders stand on their heads in passing their rivals and cooks punt a casserole over their heads to the wall behind by way of giving notice: much was required of him and he proved worthy. From Wordnik.com. [George Borrow The Man and His Books] Reference
Now, Lackaday in his manuscript relates this English episode, not so much as an appeal to pity for the straits to which he was reduced, although he winces at its precarious mountebankery, and his sensitive and respectable soul revolts at going round with the mendicant's hat and thanking old women and children for pennies, as in order to correlate certain influences and coincidences in his career. From Wordnik.com. [The Mountebank] Reference
It's time our partnership in this degrading mountebankery should cease. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Mountebank] Reference
In fact, I am probably a good deal superior to the average, for I am at least not deceived by my own mountebankery - I at least know my sound goods from my shoddy. ". From Wordnik.com. [Prejudices : first series,] Reference
It could be an elaborate scheme, a ruse, subterfuge, bamboozlement, shiftiness, skullduggery, pettifoggery, connivery, mountebankery, thimblerigging… This is one fine thesaurus; I could go all day. From Wordnik.com. [Third Door on the Left/Patchwork Pitching Staff Blues] Reference
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