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Significados de mountebank em inglês

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charlatão
catalão
xarlatà
espanhol
charlatan de feria
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A flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes.

charlatão
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Examples for "charlatan"
Examples for "charlatan"
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Quesnel followed her lead with the consummate skill of a natural charlatan.
Imprudence
2
He was a charlatan, and also not an especially good aeronautic designer.
Wired
3
This is not the conduct of the charlatan, not of the self-seeker.
AE in the Irish Theosophist
4
I once thought him wise, but now I know he's a charlatan.
Song of the Nile
5
Anybody who thinks of him as a charlatan needs to be sectioned.
The Guardian
Uso de mountebank em inglês
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The mountebank is wanted in the streets, the jester at the Louvre.
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
2
A mountebank in Leicester Fields had drawn a huge assembly about him.
A Tale of a Tub
3
There are those who call this nonsense and its author a mountebank.
The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century
4
I am a travelling mountebank, who plays farces at fairs and markets.
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
5
Why, the man would be a mountebank if he adopted any other.
The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
6
How brilliant the rags of the mountebank, Gwynplaine, appeared to him now!
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
7
What did you do when you purchased that mountebank impostor Tetzel's indulgences?
Count Ulrich of Lindburg: A Tale of the Reformation in Germany
8
I don't mind being a mountebank, but mountebanks don't pay much interest.
In the Sweet Dry and Dry
9
It's what you have been playing for all along, you infernal mountebank!
The Way of an Eagle
10
Who was the mysterious mountebank that indulged in such transparent allusions to Mme.
File No. 113
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It sheds, however, a light on the young manhood of this earnest mountebank.
The Mountebank
12
Brother Paul, ridiculous mountebank, was yet correct in this-theGrass chastised us rightly.
Greener Than You Think
13
His earnest and straightforward manner was not that of a mountebank.
A Trip to Venus: A Novel
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Of course the man was a poseur, a most horrid mountebank and ego-maniac.
Emerson and Other Essays
15
You are a true poet, and I am only a mountebank.
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2
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He seems to me to be a mountebank who professes curing all diseases.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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