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Synonyms & Antonyms of mountebankery
as in subterfuge, chicanery
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for mountebankery
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- fraudulence,
- hanky-panky,
- jugglery,
- legerdemain,
- obliquity,
- skulduggery
- (or skullduggery),
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- trickery,
- wile
- artifice,
- cheating,
- cozenage,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- crookedness,
- crookery,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- dishonesty,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- double-dealing,
- dupery,
- duplicity,
- fakery,
- foxiness,
- fraud,
- guile,
- guilefulness,
- wiliness
- artfulness,
- caginess
- (also cageyness),
- deviousness,
- shrewdness
Antonyms & Near Antonyms for mountebankery
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“Mountebankery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mountebankery. Accessed 24 Jun. 2022.
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