deceiver vs mountebank

mountebank vs deceiver

deceiver and mountebank both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
deceiver	Yes	No	No	No
mountebank	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mountebank is a hyponym of deceiver; that is, mountebank is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than deceiver:

deceiver: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
mountebank: a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes

Other hyponyms of deceiver include bluffer, four-flusher, chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler, decoy, steerer, dodger, fox, slyboots, betrayer, double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer, defalcator, embezzler, peculator, falsifier, finagler, wangler, counterfeiter, forger, fortune hunter, figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman, dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender, imitator, impersonator, fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, liar, prevaricator, misleader, charlatan, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

deceiver (noun)	mountebank (noun)
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes

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