Meaning & use
Mountebanks
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People who deceive others, especially to swindle them out of money; charlatans.
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The town square was once crowded with mountebanks selling miracle cures from the backs of wagons.
Voters grew tired of political mountebanks promising more than they could ever deliver.
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Originally described traveling con artists who literally mounted a bench to draw a crowd before selling fake medicine.
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