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charlatan
/ˈʃɑɹlətən/
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What does charlatan mean?
noun
- A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (obsolete) A mountebank, someone who addresses crowds in the street; (especially), an itinerant seller of medicines or drugs.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈʃɑɹlətən/
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Like the charlatan who counterfeits a spiritual force he has sometimes felt, they lose the power they have abused.
The commission-merchant--that is, the merchant--that is, the man--is a gambler, a slanderer, a charlatan, a mercenary, a thief, a forger.
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He had the volubility of an Italian charlatan at a fair, and, like him, appeared to be proclaiming the merits of some quack remedy.
The faker, the charlatan is everywhere--using the mental and moral and artistic forces of life as a means of delivering himself from economic servitude.
Of course, their cry of "charlatan," "humbug," and "swindler" was louder than ever from that time, but Barnum never objected to being celled names.