Usually means: Deception or trickery for profit.
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  1. mountebankery: Merriam-Webster
  2. mountebankery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mountebankery: Collins English Dictionary
  4. mountebankery: Wordnik
  5. mountebankery: Wiktionary
  6. Mountebankery, mountebankery: Dictionary.com
  7. Mountebankery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. mountebankery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Mountebankery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. mountebankery: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. mountebankery: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Mountebankery: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Mountebankery: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mountebankery: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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▸ noun:  The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.

Similar:
mountebankism, quackery, jactitation, patchery, bamboozle, shadow bank, charlatanry, mystery-mongering, banksterism, begunk, more...

Opposite:
authenticity, honesty, sincerity

Types:
hucksterism, charlatanism, quackery, snake oil, peddling, peddler, more...

Adjectives:
political, whole, higher, own, such, gross

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Similar:
mountebankism, quackery, jactitation, patchery, bamboozle, shadow bank, charlatanry, mystery-mongering, banksterism, begunk, more...

Opposite:
authenticity, honesty, sincerity

Types:
hucksterism, charlatanism, quackery, snake oil, peddling, peddler, more...

Adjectives:
political, whole, higher, own, such, gross



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