mountebankery

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Noun
  • One is inclined to ask how much chicanery, deceit, deception and outright lying one must absorb before ending one’s allegiance to that party.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 2 June 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • An especially Jewish theme in the seventeenth century was not only the necessity but the dignity of subterfuge; to have lived in the shadows of another people’s empire had a nobility of its own, captured in this exquisite and ambivalent image.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 19 July 2025
  • People generally might not realize the subterfuge at play.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • In the Carlson interview, Kennedy dismissed the many studies and scientific consensus that shots don’t cause autism as nothing more than statistical trickery.
    Patricia Callahan, CNN Money, 18 July 2025
  • Indeed, in the 1950s, a magician from New York named John Mulholland was secretly contracted with the agency to write a manual for Cold War spies on trickery and deception.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 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
  • Another horizontal measure would be a chicane, or concrete curbs jutting out like triangles into the road, like those near the Kroger in East Nashville.
    Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • 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
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
  • Elizabeth, as if sensing her impending new position in the family, is taking on more and more adult wiles. . .
    John Updike, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
  • The character Satine in the musical is less of a victim of the manager’s demands and chooses to use her feminine wiles to make money for the club, which is her artistic home.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2025
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“Mountebankery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mountebankery. Accessed 31 Jul. 2025.

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