Crossword-Solution: MOUNTEBANK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mountebank | n. | One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor. |
| Mountebank | n. | Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack. |
| Mountebank | v. t. | To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. |
| Mountebank | v. i. | To play the mountebank. |
We have 32 clues for the answer “MOUNTEBANK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| a person who sells quack medicines from a platform; a charlatan | 1 answer |
| Feature of old-time medicine show. | 1 answer |
| Friend of a fourflusher. | 1 answer |
| Tricky pitchman. | 1 answer |
| Pitchman | 8 answers |
| fraudster | 18 answers |
| Impostor | 19 answers |
| quacksalver | 23 answers |
| dissimulator | 23 answers |
| empiric | 24 answers |
| Tartuffe | 24 answers |
| defrauder | 25 answers |
| conniver | 28 answers |
| Dissembler. | 32 answers |
| gyp | 37 answers |
| cheater | 38 answers |
| Faker | 45 answers |
| Miscreant | 51 answers |
| Trickster | 51 answers |
| Charlatan | 51 answers |
| hypocrite | 53 answers |
| deceiver | 53 answers |
| Imposter | 53 answers |
| bad guy | 54 answers |
| Knave | 54 answers |
| Blackguard | 54 answers |
| Con man | 58 answers |
| Swindler | 65 answers |
| Rascal | 66 answers |
| Pretender | 68 answers |
| Quack | 72 answers |
| Cheat | 88 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with MOUNTEBANK (5)
This German Socialism, which took its schoolboy task so seriously and solemnly, and extolled its poor stock-in-trade in such mountebank fashion, meanwhile gradually lost its pedantic innocence.
Their attitude seemed to imply that she was a kind of conversational mountebank, attired, intellectually, in gauze and spangles.
Thurston: Who is that stranger, dark and tall, On the wooden settle next to the wall-- Mountebank, pilgrim, or wandering bard? Eustace: To define his calling is somewhat hard; Lady Thora has taken him by the hand Because he has come from the Holy Land.
The inn was not thirty yards away, but the messenger did not stop there; he went in at one door and out by another into the court, and then led the way by a flight of steps beside the stable, to the loft where the mountebank lay sick.
But to return to the people, whose confusions fitted them to be imposed upon by all sorts of pretenders and by every mountebank.
Quotes with MOUNTEBANK (3)
A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition. The marks of that so-called intuition are simply a sha…
The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did.
... I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been...
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1956–2023).