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charlatanic

charlatanic adjective: charlatanical.

Adjective

charlatanic (comparative more charlatanic, superlative most charlatanic)

  1. Charlatanical.
    • Of the principal character thus introduced (the celebrated and graceful, but charlatanic, Bolingbroke) I still think that my sketch, upon the whole, is substantially just.1835 December 12, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, “Dedicatory Epistle to John Auldjo, Esq., &c. at Naples”, in Devereux (Colburn’s Modern Novelists; XII), London: […] [F]or Henry Colburn, by R[ichard] Bentley...
    • [I] Vast and overwhelming, however, as the ills which follow in the train of over producing power, in the world material and manufacturing, they sink into utter insignificance--for magnitude, they are as Highgate Hill to sky-enveloped Chimborazo of eternal snow--in comparison with that crowding...1843 August, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume LIV, number 334

Forms of charlatanic

comparativemore charlatanic
superlativemost charlatanic

Origin of charlatanic

From charlatan + -ic.

Words formed from charlatanic

Questions about charlatanic

What does charlatanic mean?
Charlatanic means charlatanical.
What part of speech is charlatanic?
Charlatanic is an adjective.

Words near charlatanic in the dictionary

  1. charlady
  2. Charlaine
  3. charlatan
  4. charlatanerie
  5. charlataneries
  6. charlatanic
  7. charlatanical
  8. charlatanically
  9. charlatanish
  10. charlatanism
  11. charlatanisms

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