CHARLATAN | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of charlatan in English

Examples from literature
  • Charlatans and showmen and medical quacks call things facts that are not facts. 
  • I have never tried to break through his guard, but I feel certain that he is a deliberate charlatan. 
  • In his assumption of the seer, Blake was not a charlatan: he believed fully in his supernatural privileges. 
  • One of his main weaknesses was a habit of boasting and exaggerating his own powers, which at first imposed upon a vulgar audience and then left them under the impression that he was a charlatan. 
  • The doctor charlatan steals your money under the guise of being your benefactor. 
(Definition of charlatan from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of charlatan from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of charlatan

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In either case, the postponement of human ageing is no longer a prospect confined to mystics and charlatans.
Itinerant quacks or charlatans abounded - and these were far from being automatically mere ignorant hucksters or snake-charming tricksters.
Patients should not be discouraged from trying to help themselves, as long as they are not being financially and emotionally led astray by a charlatan.
Finally, the man was revealed as a scoundrel and a charlatan.
Is it possible for a conductor who is spiritually a charlatan to be a success?
Throughout many of his works, he exhibits a profound, consistent indignation towards charlatans in the field of scholarship.
Both were also ridiculed and condemned for attracting charlatans and causing riots and disturbances.
The cosmetic charlatans can readily be excluded from mainstream science as ' quacks', but less easily excluded are those who draw on science to develop or supply cosmetics, particularly cosmetic surgeons.
Instead, he had become the 'most specious of modern political charlatans'.
In fact, if all exhibit such solidarity, loyalty, patriotism, and so on, then they are not entirely the shower of fools, knaves, and charlatans that they seem.
It will help to prevent charlatans and unqualified people from gulling consumers and small businesses.
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The title was protected in the early 1930s in order to protect the public from charlatans —now called cowboys.
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Sharks and charlatans have made a great deal of money out of people's suffering by the sale of phoney devices.
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If he does, he is a charlatan or a fool, and the odds are that he is both.
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Translations of charlatan

in Chinese (Traditional)
冒充內行的人, 騙子, (尤指)江湖醫生…
in Chinese (Simplified)
冒充内行的人, 骗子, (尤指)江湖医生…
in Spanish
charlatán, charlatana…
in Portuguese
charlatão, charlatã…
in more languages
in Polish
in Turkish
in Russian
szarlatan…
şarlatan…
шарлатан…
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