Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Kuvat
2
| Kieli | Käännökset |
|---|---|
| kreikka | τσαρλατάνος (tsarlatános) |
| ranska | charlatan |
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- One who sells dubious medicines.
- One who sells by deception; a con artist.
- Any boastful, false pretender.
- (obsolete) An acrobat.
Verbi
- (intransitive) To act as a mountebank.
- (transitive) To cheat by boasting and false pretenses.
Esimerkit
- There is nothing so impossible in Nature but mountebanks will undertake; nothing so incredible but they will affirm. - John Bull
- “Are you allowing yourselves to be fooled by this mountebank, this harlequin? Do you cringe before a religion compounded of clouds and moonbeams? This man is an imposter and the Galactic Spirit he speaks of a fraud of the imagination devised to——”
- In the meantime, the mountebank, standing in the midst of the courtyard, raised his grotesque hat, and made us a very ceremonious bow, paying his compliments very volubly in execrable French, and German not much better.
- Chide me no more. I'll mountebank their loves, Cog their hearts from them, and come home beloved
- This was an antic fellow, half peddler and half mountebank, who travelled about the country on foot to vend hones, strops, razors, washballs, harness-paste, medicine for dogs and horses, cheap perfumery, cosmetics, and such-like wares, which he carried in a case slung to his back.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | mountebanked |
| Imperfekti | mountebanked |
| Partisiipin preesens | mountebanking |
| Monikko | mountebanks |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | mountebanks |
