mountebankery

noun

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as in chicanery

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  1. chicanery
  2. subterfuge
  3. trickery
  4. skulduggery
  5. chicane
  6. obliquity
  7. fraudulence
  8. wile
Noun
  • But also because what happens in Georgia sets the recognizable pattern of political chicanery, disinformation and interference elsewhere.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Specifically, expect to see a new look at the latest DLC for Alan Wake 2, The Lake House, and an in-depth look at the latest chicanery coming out of Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii.
    Ash Parrish, The Verge, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of chicanery
Noun
  • But as the film goes on, those idiosyncrasies reveal themselves to be more like a blend of subterfuge and pleasure, another way for Macrinus to hide his intentions behind a veil.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Putin’s ties to social media What Putin lacks as a military leader, the former KGB secret agent makes up for in subterfuge.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2024
Definition of subterfuge
Noun
  • Phishing—defined as fraudulent activities that attempt to obtain sensitive information through trickery via emails or websites—is a rampant threat during the holiday season.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
  • When the play reaches its climax, a moment of haunted stage trickery that’s supposed to thrill and engage us ends up feeling ungrounded and, in its aftermath, bizarrely underacknowledged.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of trickery
Noun
  • There are many reasons beyond cheating and skulduggery that someone might root or modify their Android device.
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 30 July 2024
  • And so the tale of how the Giants established themselves at the Polo Grounds is told, accurately enough, as a piece of complicated capitalist skulduggery in which the team’s desperate owner bought a controlling interest in the Baltimore Orioles and then dragged its stars north.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Definition of skulduggery
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  • This is where incidents often happen at the end of the DRS zone as cars can go into the chicane side-by-side.
    Madeline Coleman, The Athletic, 29 Aug. 2024
  • With a festival-like atmosphere in the glow of the Sphere, the T-Mobile Zone at Sphere Stage offers fan activations and unobstructed views of some of the most challenging turns of the race, including turn 5 and through the chicane spanning turns 7 through 9.
    Melinda Sheckells, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
Definition of chicane
Noun
  • Because of these wobbles, Earth’s obliquity isn’t perfectly fixed.
    Gongjie Li, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
  • So how do obliquity variations affect the seasons on a planet?
    Gongjie Li, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
Definition of obliquity
Noun
  • Along with chucking in a bit of aid on the side, this sickening duplicity, hypocrisy and deliberate moral fraudulence surely makes America, at the very least, the world’s number one Jekyll and Hyde nation, with Britain, as usual, bringing up the rear.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 12 June 2024
  • For several years, Smith has been grappling with the novel’s fraudulence.
    Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
Definition of fraudulence
Noun
  • Meanwhile, Tori and Rachel form a tentative alliance, planning to exert their feminine wiles over their respective male allies to keep each other safe.
    Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
  • For Chandler, a pink bunny suit costume activates his sensitive nature, while Phoebe deals with the wiles of her evil twin Ursula.
    Cady Lang, TIME, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of wile
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