Meaning of mystery-monger | Babel Free

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A person who deliberately or habitually mystifies others.

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“I like⟳ none of these mystery-mongers, but the amateur least of all. With the paid performer you may pounce upon him and expose him the instant that you have⟳ seen through his trick⟳.”

“"Curious affair, isn't it?" "Very." "Now, you're a bit of a mystery-monger, Vidal. What's your theory—eh?"”

“But I began by calling him a mystery-monger, and it is perhaps time I made good. What I mean⟳ is this. Not content with serving up to you philosophic or psychological theories and using them, dramatically, for what they will carry⟳, Pirandello frequently uses them for more than they will carry⟳, and, as I think⟳, deliberately mystifies you, for the sake of “getting away with it” in the confusion.”

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