Mountebank

/mˈa‍ʊntɪbˌæŋk/

/mˈaʊntɪbˌæŋk/

[noun]

Mountebank

[NOUN]

a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes

synonyms : charlatan

Examples

1. Mountebanks is a word I'd like to bring back.

2. Those who first referred this malady to the gods appear to me to have been just such persons as the conjurers, mountebanks and charlatans are.

3. And there were one or two of the provincial universities in Britain, like Oxford and Cambridge, where the dons, who had reigned supreme about classical knowledge for generation upon generation, were forced to take on board the barbaric findings of these mountebanks.