mountebankery

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Noun
  • Read more Opinions in The Hill Op-ed related to energy & environment submitted to The Hill: Gavin Newsom’s climate change chicanery You’re all caught up.
    Rachel Frazin, The Hill, 6 Feb. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Other times, the responsible parties engage in active subterfuge.
    Sarah Stillman, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
  • His delivery of Mantel’s dialogue—modern, intelligent, bristling with implication and subterfuge—is mesmerizingly clear.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • That narrative decision fits with Saxon’s ethos to use real skills (sculpting, puppetry, painting) and not only computer trickery to accomplish their lofty goals.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Criticisms and claims of trickery are at times pointed out.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This year the skulduggery began early and has been raging for week.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Drop in a couple of chicanes and Homestead’s road course was ready to go.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2025
  • 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
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
  • 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
  • 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 1 May. 2025.

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