mountebankery

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Noun
  • The tale away from the playing field in recent years has been dizzying, one of soaring costs and debts, of quirks and chicanery unseen elsewhere.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Another recurring feature of the biggest asset booms is outright chicanery, such as fraudulent accounting, the marketing of worthless securities, and plain old stealing.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The story then unfolded through the subterfuge of the princess and the care of Morton.
    Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Unlike the confrontational drudgery of couples therapy — and aiming to avoid the confrontational finality of divorce — this approach relies on subterfuge.
    Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Watching the song’s polarizing music video, which uses digital trickery to reunite the surviving Beatles with their late mates, projected behind McCartney and his band on a massive screen is trippy, and hard for the brain to comprehend.
    Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2025
  • But there’s no trickery in those matches — the big ones are pay-per-view promoted events.
    Jeremy Herb, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Lowest lying yards along Blue Creek are flooded.
    Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Crawford said the lying in wait allegations could not be proved because his client was just standing by a gate when the attack happened.
    City News Service, Oc Register, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The other one is the idea of political skullduggery going on in the background.
    Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
  • And though O’Neil, who has been inside, says the building itself is in no shape for skullduggery, that doesn’t mean said skullduggery isn’t happening elsewhere.
    A.K. Whitney, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Even with the old four-corner chicane removed to quicken the final sector, this remains one of the sport’s most physical tests with drivers often shedding 4 to 8 pounds over the two-hour race.
    Jenny Catlin, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Not to mention Piastri’s overtake on Norris last year at Monza into the second chicane.
    Rob Reed, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The angle this line makes to the ecliptic plane, which is the plane of the solar system in which all the planets orbit, is the obliquity.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 11 Mar. 2025
  • So how do obliquity variations affect the seasons on a planet?
    Gongjie Li, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
Noun
  • That sense of fraudulence seeped into other areas of her life, beyond pageantry.
    Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • If fraudulence signals are shared across departments, a candidate who bypassed one check could be caught by another.
    Casey Marquette, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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“Mountebankery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mountebankery. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.

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