mountebank

How To Use mountebank In A Sentence

• He was, when he chose to lay aside his mountebankery, an excellent and inspiring conductor. Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
• I wish I could fathom Aunt Jessica's reasons for her attempts at involving me in her social mountebankery. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel
• He went instantly to the prison, descended to the cell of the "mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to him. Les Miserables, Volume I, Fantine
• Is this not the age of the mountebank, of the spin-doctor and his big lies?
• At times Cord's own'talents verged on mountebankery. and the best of mountebanks had no little skill at thievery and its adjunctive crafts. Night Arrant
• 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. The Mountebank
• What could that mountebank of a preacher have said to turn his mind so?
• He spoke the word "mountebank" sneeringly, and John flushed. John of the Woods
• mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to him. Les Misérables
• mountebank" performance as they called it, -- had been everything to them that was sacred in its devout simplicity. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches