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charlatan [ˈʃɑːlətən] N

charlatan

庸医 yōngyī

charlatan

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Many illusions were staged including the exposition of fraudulent spiritualistic manifestations then being practised by charlatans. en.wikipedia.org

He asks her, but he is disappointed to learn she has spent the night with a charlatan. en.wikipedia.org

He was a writer, music critic, and described as a literary charlatan and degenerate. en.wikipedia.org

Charlatans and mountebanks were fooling more, just as sages were educating more, and alluring and lurid apocalypses vied with sober philosophy on the shelves. en.wikipedia.org

He attacked charlatans and fake doctors who roamed the cities and countryside selling their nostrums and cures. en.wikipedia.org

In the movies, he is characterized by his flippant persona, his approach to his profession as a scientific charlatan, and his womanizing demeanor. en.wikipedia.org

The charlatans demonstrate an amorality that fascinates the narrator, with their wide latitude for unconstrained heckling, irreverence and recklessness along with factual discrepancies. en.wikipedia.org

By the 18th century, use by charlatans was common for religious reasons. en.wikipedia.org

Synonyms for charlatan include mountebank, shyster, and quack. en.wikipedia.org

Only the untaught layman or the charlatan lawyer can answer that procedure matters not. en.wikipedia.org

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