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
  • The eternal fight for liberty — slaves into gladiators, gladiators into free men — calls for courage and purpose beyond Lucius’s nightmarish expectations, uncovering the treachery and chicanery of Roman politics.
    Armond White, National Review, 6 Dec. 2024
  • After eight episodes of legal and emotional chicanery, a jury finds Rusty Sabich not guilty of murdering his lover, Carolyn Polhemus.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 25 July 2024
Definition of chicanery
Noun
  • In the past, Yellowstone characters have pulled off relatively elaborate acts of subterfuge and scheming with multilayered plans that need lots of arguing and surprise twists and time — like, several episodes’ worth of time.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024
  • This content, much of it clearly generated by AI rather than intended to deceive—a medium of crude self-expression, not sophisticated subterfuge—may have been the technology’s biggest impact on the 2024 presidential election.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of subterfuge
Noun
  • Background/foreground blur and other in-camera trickery are used to great effect.
    Scott Phillips, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The game had a little bit of everything, including a little trickery at the end when the Ducks left an extra man on the field defensively in an attempt to drain some precious time from the clock while Ohio State tried to make a last-minute winning drive.
    Ralph D. Russo, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 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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  • According to Mercedes, Monza offers few energy recovery opportunities due to its mix of long straights and chicanes and just three points of heavy braking.
    Madeline Coleman, The Athletic, 29 Aug. 2024
  • 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
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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