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- pronunciation:
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noun |
| definition: |
one who deceitfully claims to possess a particular skill or expertise; fraud; quack.
Many who claimed to be able to communicate with the dead were shown to be charlatans.- similar words:
- mountebank, quack
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| related words: |
adventurer, fake, fraud, gyp, humbug, phony |
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| derivations: |
charlatanistic (adj.), charlatanism (n.) |
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