Mountebankery


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Mount´e`bank`er`y


n. 1. The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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I also wish that Stone had devoted more space to two topics: examining Uri Geller and the other charlatans who insist that their mountebankery has paranormal or supernatural origins; and the roles of magic and magicians in the other arts.
Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind

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