mountebankery

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Noun
  • Despite the chicanery, this is a solid deal for a phone that isn’t wildly different from the Pixel 9.
    Janhoi McGregor, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
  • Given the lawfare that tracks the uncertainty of our moral foundation, Henry Johnson is more pertinent than Oleanna, Mamet’s prophesy of the chicanery in the Me Too movement.
    Armond White, National Review, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • The facility had been subject to sabotage and subterfuge by Israel for many years even before these attacks–including a computer virus that wrecked the centrifuges over a decade ago.
    Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 26 June 2025
  • When the magazine writer Dylan (Daryl Wein) and his girlfriend and photographer, Lucy (Abigail Cowen), descend upon the rocker Milo (Jack Farthing), there’s subterfuge afoot.
    Lisa Kennedy, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • That trickery only works when the players understand the layers of the system on a detailed level.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 21 June 2025
  • This trickery is a cost-saving measure in that the orchid does not have to manufacture nectar or prodigious amounts of expensive pollen.
    The San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2025
Noun
  • From encounters with mermaids, the devil and even Robin Hood to themes of superstition and skulduggery, these short tales are perfect escapism to dip in and out of during your summer vacation.
    Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025
  • This year the skulduggery began early and has been raging for week.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Norris initially overtook Piastri on the hairpin, but Piastri reclaimed the position on the long straight and into the final chicane.
    Sahil Kapur, NBC news, 16 June 2025
  • The second portion of the chicane was widened, allowing different racing lines to be taken.
    Madeline Coleman, The Athletic, 22 Aug. 2024
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
  • The key players in these cycles are Earth's obliquity, the precession of its rotational axis and the shape of Earth's orbit around the sun.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Against his mother’s advice, John Jr. dug into the family lore, unearthing all manner of fraudulence—enough to inspire this book.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Don Draper is his own brand of sad dad: the ’60s family patriarch whose existential crisis sends him bouncing between absurd heights of self-confidence and heartbreaking lows of absolute fraudulence.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • And if veteran wiles is not enough, Golden State (48-34) is not above a little rough play too.
    Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Tiffany Renee Johnson does well in showing the two sides of Senegalese braider Aminata, who is proud and dignified with her peers, but vulnerable to the wiles of her cheating, out-of-work husband.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2025
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“Mountebankery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mountebankery. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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