charlatan
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These days, however, Mr. Sharpton is much closer to a charlatan than a kingmaker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
And that is alarming, because Kennedy is a charlatan who opposes evidence-based medicine and promotes discredited quackery.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2025
Pauly plays the impulsive charlatan with an irrepressible charm.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
Passing sentence Judge Geoffery Baker QC described Saeed as a "charlatan", who had carried out a deception that had been "cunningly contrived, skilfully executed, and brazenly maintained over three decades".
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2025
He ran a long feature on George Vandeveer, charlatan attorney for the Wobbly defense in the Everett Massacre deliberations.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
Ms. Adelman describes how Lewis’s specimens fell into the hands of a series of botanists—some of them charlatans, drunkards, liars or thieves—who squandered his legacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Some charlatans are involved in unscrupulous traditional so-called cures, and have been known to sell good luck charms that involve body parts.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2025
Over the centuries, it has endorsed only a small percentage of the thousands that have been claimed, in an effort to protect the faithful from charlatans, doctrinal errors or attempts to profit.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2024
This is a battle for control among con artists, charlatans, social media celebrities and mobsters.
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2023
“I’ll find a specialist...someone who knows what he’s doing...not like those charlatans in white coats that call themselves doctors.”
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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