How To Use Mountebank In A Sentence
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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
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The artistic milieu of late-nineteenth century France is the world in which he moves, surrounded by artists, aristocrats, mountebanks and tarts.
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It would be impossible for the girl who had talked so sweetly, so earnestly, so straight from her heart, when he had met her on the shunpike, to marry such a mountebank as this fellow, generous as he might be with that which could never belong to him.
The Captain's Toll-Gate
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‘Becco’, and ‘cornuto’, ‘fantastico’, ‘magnifico’, ‘impress’ (the armorial device upon shields, and appearing constantly in its Italian form ‘impresa’), ‘saltimbanco’ (= mountebank), all once common enough, are now obsolete.
English Past and Present
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He is a mountebank and a racist.
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It has become the profession of public office seekers, title hunters, social pushers, dollar diddlers, mountebanks and cads.
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Just like astrology or mountebankery, intelligent design is an agenda-driven pseudo-science that requires faith instead of facts, and imagination instead of empirical evidence.
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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.
George Borrow The Man and His Books
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mountebank," as he named the man who had put his nose out of joint.
Beverly of Graustark
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Mountebanks like him can suck them dry of their last earnings by promising them a little nest in the heavens.
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Whitman, so deeply sensuous that his poetry has the emotive compulsion of the fairground mountebank, was famous enough to be used in advertisements.
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All along, he was an audacious mountebank and a mendacious bully, who knew almost nothing about actual existing communism and who never identified a single Soviet agent.
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There is no fun going on now-a-days -- no quackery, no mountebankery, no asses, colonial or otherwise.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843
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There was one explanation as to why he was able to pass off mountebankery as art for so long; the myth of impressionism.
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This is not a business where mountebankery is to be encouraged.
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In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the ‘learned physicians’ who were taught Galenic humoral medicine in the universities labelled such doctors quacks, empirics, and mountebanks.
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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
The Mountebank
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He has been described as a ‘a mountebank, a charlatan and a scribbler’ by one author, although others see him as a proto-social scientist.
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Since the revolution, everything, including the ballet-dancers, has had its trousers; a mountebank dancer must be grave; your rigadoons are doctrinarian.
Les Miserables
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He was, in fact, a charlatan, a mountebank, a zany without any shame or dignity.
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Additional evidence indicates that it was a term used among medical mountebanks in Tudor times.
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Style and elegance are no longer twin fortes of virus-writing mountebanks.
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The more effectually to support his character as a mountebank, Villiers sold mithridate and galbanum plasters: thousands of spectators and customers thronged every day to see and hear him.
The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1
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And you, editors of my beloved Book Review, without which no weekend would be complete, should be ashamed, deeply so, for giving this mountebank such unwarranted attention.
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It was otherwise an unremarkable fair: too much food, dancing, theft, mountebanks, young men and women sneaking off together, people in witlessly fashionable clothing.
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Here should come the gleemen and jonglers, the minstrels, the mountebanks, the party-colored gipsies, the dark-eyed, nut-brown
Burlesques
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The two children, picked up by some policeman and placed in the refuge, or stolen by some mountebank, or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, did not return.
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An 18th century pamphlet The Budget Opened likened Sir Robert Walpole to a mountebank opening his ` wallet of quack medicines and conjuring tricks '-- a less polite explanation of the term budget in its financial sense than the discreeter view that it refers to the ` Chancellor's leather bag or dispatch box,' hence to its contents.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 1
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Most questionable of all, perhaps, is the merely mechanical mountebankery -- the blanks, and the dashes, and the rows of stops, the black pages and the marbled pages which he employs to force a guffaw from his readers.
The English Novel
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He could forgive every other sort of mountebankery, but not that.
The Antichrist
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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
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Is this not the age of the mountebank, of the spin-doctor and his big lies?
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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
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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
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What could that mountebank of a preacher have said to turn his mind so?
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He spoke the word "mountebank" sneeringly, and John flushed.
John of the Woods
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mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to him.
Les Misérables
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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
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A lifestyle guru is a modern sort of mountebank, selling quack advice instead of false medicines.
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In the late sixteenth century, English borrowed this word, now spelled mountebank, to refer to those roaming charlatans who would step onto a box or bench to attract the attention of potential buyers of such dubious offerings as “snake oil” medicine.1
The English Is Coming!
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Yes, for a long time I have been agitating for the licensing of ‘psychics’ and other such mountebanks.
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The word toady comes from ‘toad-eater’: a quack's or mountebank's assistant who would eat, or pretend to eat, a toad so he could be cured by the medicine man.
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They're nothing but a pack of social scientists, marketers, and mountebanks who don't even look at the game but analyze the arena for logo penetration and recognition.
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A lifestyle guru is a modern sort of mountebank, selling quack advice instead of false medicines.
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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
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You get back idiotic form letters from these mountebanks telling you they ‘care’ and ‘are investigating.’
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‘Becco’, and ‘cornuto’, ‘fantastico’, ‘magnifico’, ‘impress’ (the armorial device upon shields, and appearing constantly in its Italian form ‘impresa’), ‘saltimbanco’ (= mountebank), all once common enough, are now obsolete.
English Past and Present
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In those days, pundit would have more likely been a synonym for 'mountebank', a delicious word, which has disappeared from usage.
Journalmalists and the Hemingway Panic
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One can then be any kind of mountebank or robber, and yet rest assured of the ladies 'homage.
The Sins of Séverac Bablon
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There had always been mountebanks and charlatans operating in the public squares, but they now dominated the marketplace.
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Paragot's travesty of mountebankery or rags, but which singularly enough seemed hidden beneath his conventional garb -- the inborn and incommunicable quality of the high-bred gentleman.
The Belovéd Vagabond
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Ivan, for it was he who started the "mountebank" bear, that came near mounting him on the moment of their meeting it.
Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt
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He is not yet regarded as the mountebank he really is.
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So some two decades later he set out to transform the securities industry with a report that he hoped would expose its mountebankery and lead to a miraculous transformation.
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Epithets of ‘statesman’ were thrown around, but charlatan or mountebank might have been more appropriate.
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Lord Rochester's frolics in the character of a mountebank are well known, and the speech which he made upon the occasion of his first turning itinerant doctor, has been often printed; there is in it a true spirit of satire, and a keenness of lampoon, which is very much in the character of his lordship, who had certainly an original turn for invective and satirical composition.
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland