1. mountebank - Noun
2. mountebank - Verb
One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor.
Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.
To play the mountebank.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt is the story of a mountebank and his zany. Horace Walpole
No man - prince, peasant, pope, - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. Morris West
The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did. Kurt Vonnegut
They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this ... because ... I am a natural-born mountebank. George Bernard Shaw
It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle a mountebank and a number of silly women. Marquis de Sade
Crouch 2003, Chapter 31, "The Mountebank Game". Source: Internet