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Mountebank vs Honest - What's the difference?

mountebank | honest |

As verbs the difference between mountebank and honest

is that mountebank is to act as a mountebank while honest is to adorn or grace; to honour; to make becoming, appropriate, or honourable.

As a noun mountebank

is one who sells dubious medicines.

As an adjective honest is

scrupulous with regard to telling the truth; not given to swindling, lying, or fraud; upright.

mountebank

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who sells dubious medicines.
    • There is nothing so impossible in Nature but mountebanks will undertake; nothing so incredible but they will affirm. - John Bull
  • One who sells by deception; a con artist; a charlatan.
  • * 1951 , publication), part III: “The Mayors”, chapter 7, page 106, ¶ 13
    • “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——”

    Quotations

    : * (English Citations of "mountebank")

    See also

    * patent medicine * snake oil * quack

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To act as a mountebank.
  • To cheat by boasting and false pretenses.
    • Chide me no more. I'll mountebank their loves,
    Cog their hearts from them, and come home beloved'' - ''Coriolanus     ,

    Derived terms

    * mountebankery

    References

    honest

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (of a person or institution) Scrupulous with regard to telling the truth; not given to swindling, lying, or fraud; upright.
    • We're the most honest people you will ever come across.
  • * Sir W. Temple
    • An honest physician leaves his patient when he can contribute no farther to his health.
  • (of a statement) True, especially as far as is known by the person making the statement; fair; unbiased.
    • an honest''' account of events''; '''''honest reporting
  • In good faith; without malice.
    • an honest mistake
  • (of a measurement device) Accurate.
    • an honest scale
  • Authentic; full.
    • an honest day's work
  • Earned or acquired in a fair manner.
    • an honest dollar
  • Open; frank.
    • an honest countenance
  • (obsolete) Decent; honourable; suitable; becoming.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Behold what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching!
    (Chaucer)
  • (obsolete) Chaste; faithful; virtuous.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Wives may be merry, and yet honest too.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * dishonest

    Derived terms

    * honest as the day is long * honesty

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To adorn or grace; to honour; to make becoming, appropriate, or honourable.
    • (Archbishop Sandys)
  • * (Ben Jonson)
    • You have very much honested my lodging with your presence.

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