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Definition of Mountebankery
1. n. The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
Definition of Mountebankery
1. Noun. The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mountebankery
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Mountebankery
Literary usage of Mountebankery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
""Mountain," In the general acceptation, Is used to denote the situation, and not
the quality, of land. Lord Kildare y. Fisher, 1 Strange, 71. mountebankery. ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"Others have come from mere mountebankery, or from the more respectable, but not
much more valuable, desire to be unlike other people. ..."
3. The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV., King by Charles Greville (1897)
"The fact is he turns out an incomparable King, and deserves all the encomiums
that are lavished on him. All the mountebankery which ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1875)
"... mountebankery and buffoonery for any serious emotions even over his coffin.
He plunged into real life as the clown in the pantomime is supposed to do. ..."
5. Civilization in the United States: An Inquiry by Thirty Americans by Harold E. Stearns (1922)
"It was, from first to last, almost fabulous in its evasion of the plain issue,
its incredible timor- ousness and stupidity, its gross mountebankery and ..."
6. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
""Mountain," In the general acceptation, Is used to denote the situation, and not
the quality, of land. Lord Kildare y. Fisher, 1 Strange, 71. mountebankery. ..."
7. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"Others have come from mere mountebankery, or from the more respectable, but not
much more valuable, desire to be unlike other people. ..."
8. The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV., King by Charles Greville (1897)
"The fact is he turns out an incomparable King, and deserves all the encomiums
that are lavished on him. All the mountebankery which ..."
9. The Gentleman's Magazine (1875)
"... mountebankery and buffoonery for any serious emotions even over his coffin.
He plunged into real life as the clown in the pantomime is supposed to do. ..."
10. Civilization in the United States: An Inquiry by Thirty Americans by Harold E. Stearns (1922)
"It was, from first to last, almost fabulous in its evasion of the plain issue,
its incredible timor- ousness and stupidity, its gross mountebankery and ..."
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