mountebankery

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Noun
  • Not many people, however, concluded that financial chicanery at executive level should be used as a stick with which to beat the players and coaches who had won those trophies over the years in question.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 21 May 2026
  • There was some physicality – McAvoy absolutely buried Peyton Krebs off the hop – but little post-whistle chicanery.
    Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • If the Allies had had to postpone the invasion for the next moon-tide alignment later in the month, the subterfuge would have been exposed.
    Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 29 May 2026
  • Jakirovic was speaking before the EFL’s independent commission came down heavy on Southampton’s subterfuge.
    Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 22 May 2026
Noun
  • But ultimately, Williams believes AI can be an extension of editing trickery that has existed since the dawn of filmmaking.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 27 May 2026
  • Consider, too, relatively new forms of trickery, such as manipulating substitution procedures or spying on rivals.
    Cesar R. Torres, The Conversation, 26 May 2026
Noun
  • Kandynn was convicted of first-degree murder, with a lying in wait special circumstance, according to the DA's office.
    Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026
  • None of the ugliness of World's Apart or Kaôh Rōng permeated the proceedings, even amongst all the lying and backstabbing.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
Noun
  • Her lawyers, Giuseppe Iannaccone and Marcello Bana, have denied there was a case of grand larceny, which would include fraud and swindling.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 14 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • One result of the existing system is that vote tabulations in California go on for weeks, something that frustrates the public and the media, and, in the current atmosphere, helps fuel suspicion of electoral skullduggery.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The selection was announced by SMS to Iranians, among whom Mojtaba Khamenei has long had a reputation for skullduggery and power plays.
    Kay Armin Serjoie, Time, 9 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The Italian driver locked up and went wide, having to go through the chicane and file behind Russell.
    Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 24 May 2026
  • The village said in its chicane proposal that 167th Street near 76th Avenue has had multiple car crashes into houses at the curve between 76th Avenue and Siemsen Meadows and Centennial Parks since the road was constructed connecting 80th and Harlem Avenues.
    Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 20 May 2026
Noun
  • Dedication sifts through the turmoil and joy of Mirah’s life with an intimacy rarely obscured by obliquity or metaphor.
    Zach Schonfeld, Pitchfork, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Until now, it was thought that Earth's stable obliquity was maintained by the presence of our moon.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Jan. 2026
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“Mountebankery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mountebankery. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.

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