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• n  a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes

• It is tragic that even after Debbie discovered Howard to be a mountebank, she stuck with him.
• "Is it a wonder that acting like a mountebank came so naturally to him?" remarked a rival actor tongue in cheek.
• We are so naive; we should have seen through the tricks of this mountebank.

• charlatan

Quotes

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• HL Mencken in International Herald Tribune
  Mencken calls Bryan "a charlatan, a mountebank, a zany without any shame or dignity."