A flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes.
1 The mountebank is wanted in the streets, the jester at the Louvre.
2 A mountebank in Leicester Fields had drawn a huge assembly about him.
3 There are those who call this nonsense and its author a mountebank .
4 I am a travelling mountebank , who plays farces at fairs and markets.
5 Why, the man would be a mountebank if he adopted any other.
6 How brilliant the rags of the mountebank , Gwynplaine, appeared to him now!
7 What did you do when you purchased that mountebank impostor Tetzel's indulgences?
8 I don't mind being a mountebank , but mountebanks don't pay much interest.
9 It's what you have been playing for all along, you infernal mountebank !
10 Who was the mysterious mountebank that indulged in such transparent allusions to Mme.
11 It sheds, however, a light on the young manhood of this earnest mountebank .
12 Brother Paul, ridiculous mountebank , was yet correct in this-theGrass chastised us rightly.
13 His earnest and straightforward manner was not that of a mountebank .
14 Of course the man was a poseur, a most horrid mountebank and ego-maniac.
15 You are a true poet, and I am only a mountebank .
16 He seems to me to be a mountebank who professes curing all diseases.
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