How to use charlatan in a sentence

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• I said rhubarb, rhubarb to oblige her, but I felt like a charlatan.2001, Sheila Rowbotham, Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties. From the entry rhubarb rhubarb
• I think we have learned to beware of these political charlatans.1945 May, Alexander Wiley, “Patent Medicine Politics”, in Washington News Digest, Washington, D.C.: Washington News Digest Foundation…. From the entry hokum
• Only an idiot or a charlatan would attempt anything of auguristic nature at this moment.1934, National Wool Grower, volume 24, National Wool Growers Association - Authors & Publishers, page 27. From the entry debacular
• But charlatans and vagarians never cease to appropriate scientific terms for their pseudologies.1928, Arvid Reuterdahl, The God of science, page 220. From the entry vagarian
• Understanding how we can be manipulated helps us pull back the curtain on charlatans and can even protect democracy.2020 December 17, Nathan J. Robinson, “The Sophist and The Magician”, in Current Affairs, archived from the original on 10 Oct 2024. From the entry pull back the curtain
• Whenever an authentic trend is co-opted by teenie-boppers and dumbed-down programming, the worry is that charlatans will abound.2009 November 6, Derek Brown, “Did Gossip Girl Kill the Speakeasy?”, in James Bennet, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic…. From the entry teenie-bopper
• The crocus of this novel is gusty Professor Louis Delfontaine, quack doctor, showman, charlatan and man of parts.1937, Neil Bell, Crocus. From the entry crocus
• The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible—and the man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan.1927, Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook of Elbert Hubbard: Mottos, Epigrams, Short Essays, Passages, Orphic Sayings and Preachments: Coined…. From the entry more or less
• In this new world, ruled by charlatans and dominated by demireps, Talleyrand may have found much to shock his sense of decorum, but little to outrage his moral standards.1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, Folio Society, published 2010, page 65. From the entry demirep
• "They will say that you are an infernal liar and a scientific charlatan, exactly as you and others said of me." "In the face of photographs?" "Faked, Summerlee!1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry Fleet Street
• Thus far, fortunately, it has not been made a subject either for a propagandum or for quackery; but the subject has great potentialities for zealots as well as for charlatans.1907, Mississippi Valley Medical Monthly, volume 27, page 143. From the entry propagandum

Meaning of charlatan

1. noun A mountebank, someone who addresses crowds in the street; (especially), an itinerant seller of medicines or drugs.
2. noun A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit.

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How do you use charlatan in a sentence?

Charlatan is used as a noun. For example: “That this disgraceful charlatan holds one of the great offices of state in this country should be a source of constant shame and embarrassment to the Prime Minister.”

What is a short sentence with charlatan?

“I think we have learned to beware of these political charlatans.”

What does charlatan mean?

Charlatan means a mountebank, someone who addresses crowds in the street; (especially), an itinerant seller of medicines or drugs.