mountebankery

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Noun
  • Jane was a devout Protestant at a time of religious upheaval, the ultimate innocent victim of the chicanery of the Tudor court in the chaotic aftermath of Henry VIII’s reign.
    Pan Pylas, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2025
  • The more processes and services a security tool contains, the more opportunities for such chicanery.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • His delivery of Mantel’s dialogue—modern, intelligent, bristling with implication and subterfuge—is mesmerizingly clear.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2025
  • With a bit of guidance, navigating between the classic go-to’s and the newer dining options are scattered throughout the properties can lead to incredible culinary discoveries, plenty of popping champagne bottles and even a dash of historical subterfuge.
    Alissa Fitzgerald, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Criticisms and claims of trickery are at times pointed out.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • But there is no science supporting this trickery in the case of the weight-loss drugs.
    Stephen Moore, Boston Herald, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Obviously, such a system is rife with uncertainty, and the history of the process is full of skulduggery, both on the club and player side.
    Tony Blengino, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Climax became the first ever vegan cheesemaker to win a prestigious Good Food award—though dairy complaints caused the prize to be rescinded at the last minute, with shades of the protectionist, legal skulduggery faced by non-dairy milk products.
    Andrew Rosenblum, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Your best chance is at the Casio triangle, the chicane between 130R and the final corner that leads onto the start-finish straight.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Improvements were made to the stretch of road along Kootenai Street where Wyatt was hit, including adding chicanes to slow down cars, a new sidewalk and wider bike lanes.
    Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 1 Apr. 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
  • Because of these wobbles, Earth’s obliquity isn’t perfectly fixed.
    Gongjie Li, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
Noun
  • But there’s less Cocteau in Corbet (and Brody’s Toth) than an unseemly willingness to perpetuate the fraudulence that overwhelms Millennial cinema.
    Armond White, National Review, 24 Jan. 2025
  • This particular set of islanders seemed immune from the usual unscripted television fraudulence; their sincere reactions to romantic heartbreak and platonic betrayal accurately reflected the emotional rollercoaster of modern dating.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Finn Bjork totaled 16 points and 12 rebounds wile Dom Taylor poured in 18 points as No. 6 Somerset Berkley advanced to the Division 2 State title game with a 66-58 win over No. 7 Masconomet on Monday night at the Clark Athletic Center Gymnasium on the campus of UMass Boston.
    Matt Feld, Boston Herald, 11 Mar. 2025
  • That seems like an awfully optimistic reading of Trump’s strategic wiles.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
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“Mountebankery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mountebankery. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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