mountebank
(en)
(noun) a person who sells quack medicines from a platform / (noun) a boastful unscrupulous pretender; charlatan / (verb) to beguile or transform by trickery / (verb) to play the mountebank
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mountebank
In front of Hitler, an anti-master of the word more ruthless than he was--an actor, mountebank, declaimer more mesmerizing--Kraus fell silent.
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buys a love potion from a mountebank
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