Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Savoring somewhat of the charlatan.
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Examples
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Unless he just came straight from the OR, wearing scrubs on stage just seems a tad too bit charlatanish in my opinion.
More on the ‘low-carb’ study at the AHA meeting | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007
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Hugo as at best a very chequered genius and at worst an almost charlatanish rhetorician.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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He was a kind of entomologist and botanist, a kind of philologist (one is a little astonished to find that rather curious and very charlatanish person and parson Sir Herbert
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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