Crossword-Solution: MOUNTEBANKERY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mountebankery | n. | The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “MOUNTEBANKERY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| False pretenses | 3 answers |
| quackery | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MOUNTEBANKERY (4)
Leo Hunter’s _fete champetre?_ I wish I could fathom Aunt Jessica’s reasons for her attempts at involving me in her social mountebankery.
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.
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.
Many of the Turks are so handy at this nasty trick, that they can make the Smoke they have swallowed come out of their ears, eyes, and nostrils; but I envy them not such Mountebankery, and when I smoke my Pipe, am content to Blow a Cloud in a moderate and Christian manner.
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Appears in: LAT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2017).