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- noun Plural form of
charlatan .
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Examples
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Over all was the mushroom Emperor, his anterooms crowded with the titled charlatans of Europe, his court radiant with countesses created overnight.
Real Soldiers of Fortune Richard Harding Davis 1890
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What I am is angry and disgusted and ashamed, and I pray to my god, to your god, and to any god that will listen, that these people are identified as the charlatans that they are and that the scales fall from the eyes of their supporters.
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They were involved in vague and nebulous ideas, mixed up with what I am afraid I must call charlatans, the refuse and the wreckage of other arts.
Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Edmund Gosse 1888
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Its going to take a generation-if ever- to remotely believe a word these charlatans say. theparson 26 September 2011 12:27PM
The Guardian World News John Denham 2011
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When non-christians predict the end of the world, they're called charlatans or heretics.
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It is no accident that Sahagún, in his list of occupations, includes the physician among the artisans that the Mexica held most in high esteem (the others were the featherworker, the lapidary, and the goldsmith) .26 We also should note here that the condemnation of médicos malos found in these same texts, apart from the European objection to "superstitious" practices, surely include descriptions of what the Nahuas themselves considered to be "bad doctors," that is, the charlatans and the sorcerers who used their skills to inflict harm.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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No wonder my socially conservative friend deplores the "charlatans" on his side of the debate just as much as he does the momentum on "the other side".
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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No wonder my socially conservative friend deplores the "charlatans" on his side of the debate just as much as he does the momentum on "the other side".
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No wonder my socially conservative friend deplores the "charlatans" on his side of the debate just as much as he does the momentum on "the other side".
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If, after running a campaign last fall promising they would end Bush's war, and after failing miserably to do so for the past 10 months in power in Congress, they did not support a filibuster against further funding, they would stand exposed as the worst kind of charlatans and fraudsters.
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