mountebankery

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Noun
  • Spotify, the industry’s behemoth, claims that its fraud detection programs caught Smith’s alleged chicanery.
    Kate Knibbs, Wired News, 20 May 2025
  • While shocking nonprofit chicanery has found itself in the media spotlight, the story of one West Texas charity deserves to be told and to inspire.
    Jack Fowler, National Review, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Remember when Russia was that pesky geopolitical force who’s own constant secrecy and subterfuge brought about the downfall of its imperial ambitions?
    Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 8 Mar. 2025
  • But this subterfuge is perhaps the very substance of the paintings.
    Zoë Hopkins, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Plus, the live-action shots and remarkable CGI trickery in bringing the Lupo creature to life are seamlessly integrated.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 17 May 2025
  • After Susy died suddenly in 1896, Twain wrote an essay, quoted at length by Chernow, about the sick trickery of the Almighty.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 May 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
  • The Dutchman pulled off a stunning performance last time out at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, having executed an audacious move on the very first lap, overtaking pole-sitter Oscar Piastri around the outside of the first chicane.
    Yara Elshebiny, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
  • Piastri made some positive progress with Verstappen-style moves at the Tamburello chicane (effectively the Imola track’s first corner).
    Luke Smith, New York Times, 18 May 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
  • Tiffany Renee Johnson does well in showing the two sides of Senegalese braider Aminata, who is proud and dignified with her peers, but vulnerable to the wiles of her cheating, out-of-work husband.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2025
  • Still, the unscrupulous Moss uses his wiles and his belligerent way with words to try selling Aaronow on the idea of breaking into the office.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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“Mountebankery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mountebankery. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.

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