1. Plural of mountebankery; fraudulent or deceptive practices; charlatanism or quackery.
Usage: Formal or literary; Often used to describe dishonest schemes or false claims

Examples

• The doctor's mountebankeries were exposed when his fake credentials came to light.
• The carnival was full of mountebankeries designed to separate tourists from their money.
• She saw through his mountebankeries and refused to invest in his dubious scheme.
• The politician's mountebankeries included false promises and misleading statistics.
• Historical records reveal the mountebankeries of medieval alchemists who claimed to turn lead into gold.
• The con artist's mountebankeries fooled many people before he was arrested.