"mountebankery" meaning in English

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          "text": "I have already alluded to \"strawing,\" which can hardly be described as quackery. It is rather a piece of mountebankery. […] The strawer offers to sell any passer by in the streets a straw and give the purchaser a paper which he dares not sell. Accordingly as he judges of the character of his audience, so he intimates that the paper is political, libellous, irreligious, or indecent.",
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        "The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses."
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