charlatan

These days, however, Mr. Sharpton is much closer to a charlatan than a kingmaker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

The sentencing judge found that Peters was motivated by vanity and personal aggrandizement rather than genuine concern for election integrity, describing her as a charlatan who used her former position to peddle disproven claims.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2025

And that is alarming, because Kennedy is a charlatan who opposes evidence-based medicine and promotes discredited quackery.

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 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

Every few centuries, some charlatan, some crawling, vicious soul, would try to get close to the Glimourie Tree—to steal it, to take it for their own.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

But cults are generally led by charlatans, so that’s not surprising.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026

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

The series toes a delicate line, showing why alternative remedies can be so appealing to patients frustrated with traditional medicine, but also illustrating how dangerous charlatans are willing to exploit that desperation for personal gain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025

Some sorcerers are charlatans, but most sincerely believe in the existence of gods and demons.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari