How To Use Charlatan In A Sentence
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a medium, some call a conjurer, some call a charlatan and a quack.
The Mystery of the Four Fingers
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I have recently taken the advice of a charlatan going by the name of Dr. Spinola.
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My fault for being such an eejit as to give a charlatan a fortune for dressed-up tripe.
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When the cup of human life is so overflowing with woe and pain and misery, it seems to me a narrow dilettanteism or downright charlatanism to devote one's self to petty or bizarre problems which can have no relation to human happiness, and to prate of self-satisfaction and self-expression.
Woman Her Sex and Love Life
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German's work; but what perhaps the world calls charlatanism in him is really only the reaction of genius when it comes into conflict with the brutal obstinacy of real life.
Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
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Here, the character Ms. Kudrow plays is far from sympathetic—she's psychotherapist Fiona Wallice, a charlatan, and a remorseless, self-obsessed one, busy peddling what she's fond of describing as her new "treatment modality.
Therapy as Shock Treatment
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I have been accused of perfidy, malingering, duplicity, charlatanism and forty other words that I don't know the meaning of.
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And I had come to be oppressed by what seemed to me the futility of art -- a pompous legerdemain, a consummate charlatanry that deceived not only its devotees but its practitioners.
CHAPTER II
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Over the years I have become more and more aggravated by the way Americans butcher the English language, by the way members of the media misuse terms, by the charlatanical ways in which corrupt persons in power desecrate noble words such as "democracy" which, coming from their mouths, is the equivalent of the word "love" emanating from the mouth of a whore.
Award Winning author, journalist and humorist, Burton H. Wolfe is Interviewed
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You believe this, but are you going to show us examples of his "charlatanry" ... wow April 9, 2009 - 12: 37 ET by
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
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Cranks and charlatans abound when we are all experts in our own field, and consequently nobody is a real expert at all.
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The origins and vicissitudes by which the field has passed have not always distinguished it from religion, alternative healing practices, superstition, and also charlatanism.
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The trouble is that these days there's no way to tell a real saint from a charlatan.
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Please, please keep up the good work exposing the ever-increasing hoards of quacks and charlatans out there.
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Buelow was appointed kapellmeister of the Court Theatre; reforms, peculiarly disagreeable to those reformed, were set on foot; and singers, players, regisseurs, who had anticipated sleeping away their existence in the good old fashion, were violently awakened by this reckless adventurer, charlatan, and what not, who had won the King's ear.
Wagner
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This account of seemingly genuine claimants, reckless pretenders, daffy charlatans and patently mad pretenders to the French crown is the stuff of high farce.
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That charlatan! I lost thousands of dollars because I followed his advice.
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His spirit was critical and reform-minded, along the lines of the French philosophes, who defined themselves as the adversaries of superstition and charlatanism.
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Vampyre umbral skulker until sunlight dwindles then bat becomes nocturnal prince throat ravager, claret quaffer, night wraith fearless charlatan, blood drunkard but at dawn's flushing kiss he yields to light
Archive 2006-08-01
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“That charlatan you call a healer will not touch my sister.”
My Devilish Scotsman
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A silver-tongued charmer with celluloid in his veins, he veers between boy-wonder genius and self-promoting charlatan.
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Although past their commercial peak, The Charlatans almost always put on a good show with a great mix of classic singalong songs and funky beats.
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`It's always distressing,' he said, `to find that one of one's most valued colleagues is, in fact, a charlatan.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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Charlatan nursing colleges are "mushrooming" in the Eastern
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Because he knows all the tricks of his trade, he is able to spot a charlatan from a mile away while wearing a blindfold.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having but an indifferent opinion of books ushered into existence by such charlatanical manoeuvres, we thought no more of Omoo, until, musing the other day over our matutinal hyson, the volume itself was laid before us, and we suddenly found ourselves in the entertaining society of Marquesan Melville, the phoenix of modern voyagers, sprung, it would seem, from the mingled ashes of Captain Cook and Robin Crusoe.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
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Their patronising, cliquish self-regard has repeatedly been exposed as charlatanry.
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Not yet aware of this truth, nor, indeed, in the least suspecting Gawtrey of worse offences than those of a charlatanic and equivocal profession, the young man mused over his protector's cowardice in disdain and wonder: till, wearied with conjectures, distrust, and shame at his own strange position of obligation to one whom he could not respect, he fell asleep.
Night and Morning, Complete
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In the late sixteenth century, English borrowed this word, now spelled mountebank, to refer to those roaming charlatans who would step onto a box or bench to attract the attention of potential buyers of such dubious offerings as “snake oil” medicine.1
The English Is Coming!
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How long must the majority of the Scottish people continue to elect such deceitful scoundrels and charlatans who masquerade as champions of the working class in our country?
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In 2006 a Jeddah court convicted an Eritrean national Muhammad Burhan for "charlatanry" because he possessed a phone book that contained writings in the Tigrinya alphabet used in Eritrea.
Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories
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In touring with the likes of Oasis and The Charlatans, The Music have rapidly acquired a fierce live reputation.
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This is what you get when you loan your hard-won credibility to hacks and charlatans.
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The team does not feel the average person today is as ignorant toward shams and charlatans as they might have been just ten years ago.
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The trouble is that these days there's no way to tell a real saint from a charlatan.
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One can't discount the importance of protecting the public from charlatans and fly-by-night operations.
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St. Honore, at Paris, sat a man ALONE — a man who has been maligned, a man who has been called a knave and charlatan, a man who has been persecuted even to the death, it is said, in Roman
Roundabout Papers
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This leads him into some splendid attacks on charlatanry masquerading as truth.
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He choked up while describing a little boy who had been deceived by a charlatan faith healer.
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We are dreamers, idealists, romantics - interlopers, charlatans, scoundrels.
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He despised quacks and charlatans because he admired the power of thought and reason so profoundly.
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Where are the serious people who can displace this flea-bitten ragtag circus of charlatans, illiterates, hucksters, kooks, and dumbells?
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No. She isn't a miracle worker. She isn't even a doctor. She's a complete charlatan.
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Gillian McKeith may be a complete fraud, but this kind of charlatanry is everywhere, especially over here in Californialand.
Gillian McKeith: Charlatan - :: gia’s blog ::
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I have been accused of perfidy, malingering, duplicity, charlatanism and forty other words that I don't know the meaning of.
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He has to a very slight extent, but still perceptibly, encouraged a kind of charlatanism of utterance among those who possess his Irish impudence without his Irish virtue.
George Bernard Shaw
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Take the case of the charlatan who claims to transmit thoughts at a distance.
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There had always been mountebanks and charlatans operating in the public squares, but they now dominated the marketplace.
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How can anyone trust David 'charlatan' Cameron and nick 'deceitful' Clegg again after they have systematically lied and pulled the wool over peoples eyes over the catastrophic and idealogical driven cuts that will stymy any hope if economic recovery and will hurt peoples living standards harder than at any time in Britain's history.
The spotlight begins to shine on the coalition's flaws and faultlines | Andrew Rawnsley
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A bold-faced charlatan, a low-minded quack, who had enjoyed far more and longer success than he had ever deserved.
MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
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This is truly an important book that should bury the image of the Cadillacdriving charlatan for ever.
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He tracks down and exposes wonder-working nuns and other charlatans, leftovers from The Canterbury Tales, and instead of hanging or flogging them compels them to confess their fraudulence in public.
The Men Who Made England
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If we do not expose him for a fraud and a charlatan we give him credibility.
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A bold-faced charlatan, a low-minded quack, who had enjoyed far more and longer success than he had ever deserved.
MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
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I'm a fake, a phony, a fraud, an impostor, and a charlatan of the worse degree.
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He's a self-styled mystic, widely regarded as a charlatan, exploiting the bereaved for money.
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One who brags of medicines or salves; a medicaster; a charlatan.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Her father always claimed he was a charlatan and quietly mocked Cotterell's supercilious air and ostentatious dress.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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Moreover, corporations have powerful “think tanks” that work to influence public opinion in devious ways, such as creating the image of “unbiased research” by a panel of well-paid scientific charlatans – most insidiously used to discredit global warming for the past decade.
Widespread Sustainable Consumerism is More Vital Than Taking Individual Actions
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They're just charlatans trying to bully people.
The Sun
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Epithets of ‘statesman’ were thrown around, but charlatan or mountebank might have been more appropriate.
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Of the principal character thus introduced (the celebrated and graceful, but charlatanic, Bolingbroke) I still think that my sketch, upon the whole, is substantially just.
Devereux — Complete
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In some ways the ultimate question posed by Fox News, Murdoch's career, and television's current fertile disarray is whether charlatanry is an improvement on humbug.
The Murdoch Touch
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But even apart from the reactionary content of their politics, the dearth of substantive analysis brands them as charlatans and imposters.
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`It's always distressing,' he said, `to find that one of one's most valued colleagues is, in fact, a charlatan.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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Her father always claimed he was a charlatan and quietly mocked Cotterell's supercilious air and ostentatious dress.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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George Sand tells us that he was obliged "to accept, in theory, what he called the necessities of pure politics, ruse, charlatanism and even untruth, concessions that were not sincere, alliances in which he did not believe, and vain promises.
George Sand; Some Aspects of her Life and Writings
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I too think I understand them, and I think they are quacks, hacks, and lying charlatans motivated solely by greed.
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Critics described him as a brazen-faced charlatan and a pious rogue.
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Of the charlatan side of Jullien, the love of noise and, again to quote Carlyle, of the "explosion of all the upholsteries," Punch gives a graphic if severe picture in the verses which appear in his first number: --
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
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Petitioner asserts in a posttrial memorandum that he was "duped by a charlatan and in essence Robert Gruntz tacitly implied that I should fabricate a log that would show 'material participation'".
May it please the Court, just Google it (Jack Bog's Blog)
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There are an astounding number of plain frauds and charlatans (to phrase it at its highest) in charge of the propaganda of the other side.
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He was a shameless self publicist, a fraud and a charlatan, but he was also an educated, intelligent and willful diabolist.
Witches Have More Fun In Bexhill?
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Its history is littered with crooks, con men and charlatans.
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However, there are many charlatans, hucksters, and snake-oil sellers among the New Age field, in part because it is so easy to fool people when you can't produce hard physical evidence of the truth of your assertions.
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Brunet's tongue was little relished by the imperial _charlatan, -- le claqueur de la Grand Armée_, as he has been called.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
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Unforgiveably, he fell for the whole thing hook, line and sinker, and at no point deployed his sarky tongue to dismantle the publicity-fixated cybercharlatan's prognosis.
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It is no charlatanic boasting, but the simple truth, when we affirm that the different natural methods of treatment, as we of the Nature
Nature Cure
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Her father always claimed he was a charlatan and quietly mocked Cotterell's supercilious air and ostentatious dress.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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Materialism and spiritualism are a fine pair of battledores with which charlatans in long gowns keep a shuttlecock a-going.
The Magic Skin
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Indeed, "charlatanism" is a misapplied word in this connection; for it would describe the doctor who puts on an artificial and conventional manner with his patients, rather than one who is absolutely frank and true to his own extraordinary nature.
The Stark Munro Letters
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When the satirist aims to deflate false heroes, imposters or charlatans, who claim a respect which is not their due, the vehicle he chooses for this is usually the mock-heroic.
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If it is used a billion or a hundred billion times by the mass miscommunications media, it is then only a billion or a hundred billion times more inaccurate, false, fraudulent, biased, and charlatanical than it was when the PLO invented it.
There Are No "Anti-semites" and No "Palestinians"
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Policy Exchange report is exposed by BBC Newsnight as charlatanic hate mongery.
Archive 2007-12-09
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Some of the handiwork of this charlatanry is now manifest to everyone.
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He was a kind of entomologist and botanist, a kind of philologist (one is a little astonished to find that rather curious and very charlatanish person and parson Sir Herbert
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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charlatanry" an Asian man accusing him of using supernatural powers to solve marital disputes and induce others to fall in love.
Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories
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He despised quacks and charlatans because he admired the power of thought and reason so profoundly.
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charlatanism" is a misapplied word in this connection; for it would describe the doctor who puts on an artificial and conventional manner with his patients, rather than one who is absolutely frank and true to his own extraordinary nature.
The Stark Munro Letters
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Charlatan is an opprobrious term, but "empiric" literally means one who follows experience instead of dogma, and should therefore be an honorable designation; but as the medical profession has always been dogmatic, and therefore hostile to empiricism, or fidelity to experience, it has made empiricism an opprobrious term.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10
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Before judgment was rendered, the medical faculty proscribed, in a body, Mesmer’s so-called charlatanism, his tub, his conducting wires, and his theory.
Ursula
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Johnson offers only grudging admiration for Cezanne, and he flirts with the idea that Picasso was a charlatan.
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He had an infectious way of making a charlatan believable, a Lothario's wooing credible, a swindler's eventual revelation of a heart behind his billfold totally convincing.
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They are here today, gone tomorrow, with just enough ill-gotten cash to entice other charlatans into engaging the same schemes.
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If we do not expose him for a fraud and a charlatan we give him credibility.
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These people are cheats, fraudsters, charlatans and hoaxers.
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His tastes are certainly catholic, taking in performances less open-minded pundits might dismiss as charlatanism.
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Whatever this mysterious weakness may have been which we call his "charlatanism," it certainly dropped away from him like a mask when he confronted the wind or sea or such primitive forms of human tragedy as are elemental in their simple outlines.
Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
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Whoever promises a quick and easy solution is either a fool, a charlatan or a demagogue.
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The charlatan boasted that he could charm off any disease.
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That man was proclaimed a fool, a crook and a charlatan up and down the country.
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Its history is littered with crooks, conmen and charlatans.
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Back in 1989, when The Charlatans had their first hit with The Only One I Know, they were widely dismissed as baggy chancers.
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I have heard him spoken of as a charlatan, as a chameleon, as a chatterbox, and, by a man who had hoped that the KAISER would be hanged in Piccadilly Circus, as a chouser.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 10, 1920
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Sans mandate, Cameron and his scrotal sac of charlatans, crooks and useful idiots are about to implement ideologically driven meltdown
Steve Bell on David Cameron
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Naturopathic medicine became considered the province of charlatans and primitives.
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Her father always claimed he was a charlatan and quietly mocked Cotterell's supercilious air and ostentatious dress.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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Unless, of course, you want to be unmasked for the charlatan and scoundrel you are.
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Think not that charlatanic genius rests content with triumphs even so transcendent as these.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
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That "Cagliostro" is rightfully placed in the category of pseudo-alchemists is certain, but it also appears equally certain that, charlatan though he was, posterity has not always done him that justice which is due to all men, however bad they may be.
Alchemy: Ancient and Modern
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Science is always under siege by charlatans, and theories of gravity are among the most attractive to con artists and self-deceiving megalomaniacs.
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I'm a fake, a phony, a fraud, an impostor, and a charlatan of the worse degree.
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December 2nd, 2009 11: 22 am ET huckleberry is a moron, a charlatan, a phony, and a fool.
HuckPAC coordinator steps down, citing clemency decision
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At the opposite pole to divine magic is the type that is playful and deceitful, thanks to which charlatans skillfully produce effects that stupefy ignorant people.
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But even apart from the reactionary content of their politics, the dearth of substantive analysis brands them as charlatans and imposters.
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Haven't I lost enough on this venture which will probably accomplish little more than branding me as a charlatan?
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They are being led by hypocrites at best, charlatans and con men at worse.
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Being a conservative does not let you flit like some light of weight flotsam and jetsam from party to party; to be persuaded by charlatans like Blair or to take up each new trendy theory thought up by political pigmies.
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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But then we'd expect that - the same thing happened to Newton without him being considered a charlatan or a fraud.
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We are a laid back people - yet we're not a dumb people, and we will not be fooled by a political charlatan such as yourself.
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He despised quacks and charlatans because he admired the power of thought and reason so profoundly.
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Sept. 11 leaves the ‘moral equivalency’ muddlers exposed as sophists and charlatans.
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The juxtaposition of his carping, meticulous fetishizing of cuisine punctilios with that of his abecedarian, pompous-yet-undereducated plodding attempts to guild his prosaic sensibilities with grandiloquent language only serve to expose the charlatan behind the greasy, smacking lips and cheap, brass-plated tongue.
Rouge
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I felt, however, a certain amount of honest indignation at what seemed to me his charlatanic manner of putting off on people his random and improvised suggestions regarding questions which seemed to me then of vital importance to society.
The Autobiography of a Journalist
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The Charlatans know this. With their inbuilt Brit arrogance, they are avoiding the back-breaking circuit slog.
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Along the way, however, he points out that the great strength of English departments in universities was that, while being 'vulnerable to charlatanism and dupery' you can say that again, they were also 'the last great repository for the nonutilitarian hopes of the university.'
Literary theory is dead, hurrah! Or is it boo?
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The "peculiar domestic institution," the fillibustering tendencies of the nation, the charlatanism which is the price of political power, are butts for the shafts of the satirist, which European poets may well envy Mr. Lowell.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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He has been described as a ‘a mountebank, a charlatan and a scribbler’ by one author, although others see him as a proto-social scientist.
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Unfortunately, even as the euro hit an all-time high, the Great Charlatan plummeted to unimagined depths.
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This is confirmed by the long history of charlatans and quacks who appear highly plausible to the public, but not to experienced doctors.
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This bumptious charlatan then presumes to lecture others on issues of morality and governance.
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Normally, we portray our politicians as desiccated calculating machines, charlatans or megalomaniacs.
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The strange far-off oriental words which today scholars discuss, theosophists manipulate, and charlatans employ as catchpennies were common words in the every-day speech of the Hindu people, two or three thousand years ago.
The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
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Some people thought the author was a genius, but others dismissed him as a charlatan who had merely strung together a necklace of ideas and facts and characters who were little more than cardboard cut-outs.
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Brain Age games don't necessarily make you smarter, and it is "charlatanism" to make such a claim.
Joystiq [Nintendo]
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His mixture of naiveté, charlatanism, and singular devotion to a unique vision make him a genuine frontier spirit, a real-life American folk hero for the '80s, and a precious natural resource.
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They are all a bunch of charlatans and confidence men.
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A key theme of his latest work is the spread of murmurs of apocalyptic marvels and of ambivalent savior-cum-charlatan figures on the horizon.
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Still, where there is greed and desperation, charlatans and conners will prosper.
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They are likely a charlatan, a mesmerist, or a dolt.
It's a Plot!
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The quacks and charlatans, after all, may not be worth much in terms of delivering on their promises.
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Among the charlatanry, however, are authentic Aboriginal art and jewellery as well as every kind of food stall, from traditional Australian meat pies through to fiery bowls of Malaysian laksa.
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The director is a left nationalist, but he is neither a charlatan nor a hack.
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This bumptious charlatan then presumes to lecture others on issues of morality and governance.
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Because he knows all the tricks of his trade, he is able to spot a charlatan from a mile away while wearing a blindfold.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was, in fact, a charlatan, a mountebank, a zany without any shame or dignity.
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The charlatan boasted that he could charm off any disease.
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The Charlatans' frontman provided guest vocals on their epochal debut, but times have changed.
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The label pseudoscientist is commonly given to cranks and charlatans, who claim abnormal powers and abilities, but refuse to demonstrate them in objective, controlled, monitored environments.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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The place seemed to be full of time-servers and charlatans of one sort and another, and I just didn't get on with it.
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charlatanry" doesn't really belong in a scientific paper.
Slashdot: Your Rights Online
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His premise is a cheery one, that flattery lies between praise and porky pies, something that can certainly be abused by charlatans and rogues but which also acts as a social lubricant.
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I'm either a liar, a cheat, and a charlatan, or I'm crazy, and I have these weird visions that are purely from my imagination.
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It's true to say that there always have been and always will be phonies and charlatans claiming psychic powers either for profit or for notoriety.
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Was he the charlatan and opportunist many still claim him to be?
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It is taken to mean black magic, or the cavortings of depraved charlatans—or both.
The Templar Revelation
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I saw myself protecting poetry against the pretenders, the charlatans, the fakers.
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He studied all the books of chemistry which at that period were attainable, — a period when, in the world, it was a science far unlike what it has since become; and when Septimius had no instruction in this country, nor could obtain any beyond the dark, mysterious, charlatanic communications of Doctor Portsoaken.
Septimius Felton, or, The elixir of life
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I have been accused of perfidy, malingering, duplicity, charlatanism and forty other words that I don't know the meaning of.
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In the meantime, most orchid still is bold-faced charlatan and swindler.
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`It's always distressing,' he said, `to find that one of one's most valued colleagues is, in fact, a charlatan.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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All sorts of politicians and performers and charlatans make walk-on appearances.
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Any article that actually comes right out and says, "Now here's a mindreading act," in the title deserves all the respect you'd give the most obvious and ham-handed charlatan.
Griper News
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Of the world's ample types of miscreant — the hypocrite, the lecher, the glutton, the miser, the charlatan and many others — my preference is overwhelmingly for the charlatan.
Portrait of a Silver-Tongued Deceiver
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To others, he is an impene-trable, loquacious charlatan, a mystificateur pouring forth vatic, rapturous tautologies.
Archive 2008-07-01
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-- The peripatetic Alexander of Aphrodisias who fought fatalism in his [Greek: Peri heimarmenês], at the beginning of the third century, and who violently attacked the charlatanism and cupidity of the astrologers in another book (_De anima mantissa_, p. 180, 14, Bruns), formulated the contradiction in the popular beliefs of his time (_ibid. _, p. 182, 18):
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
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So he was a liar and a charlatan, every magician is.
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It genuflects to such charlatans and presents them as legitimate ‘people's leaders,’ providing them with much needed credibility.
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The evening deteriorated into a purposeless clutter of sensations: flutes shrilling; a shower of violets from the ceiling; a charlatan vomiting flames.
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It's true to say that there always have been and always will be phonies and charlatans claiming psychic powers either for profit or for notoriety.
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Infantilise it as the "Inner Child" of the self-help charlatans though, idealise it in a sexually-retarded prepubescence, project that unreturnable infancy onto an unattainable other, and you're asking for the trouble that comes to Barrie's Pan or Sinisalo's Angel.
Poland Won, Bad Points Nil
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These people are cheats, fraudsters, charlatans and hoaxers.
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Professor: suggesting Brain Age helps is 'charlatanism'
Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
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There has to be an end to charlatanry - there will only be one opportunity and one realistic option.
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No matter if the business of personal symphonies is clearly an open invitation to any musical charlatan with an ability to please a crowd.
On Faith
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A vivid portrait of a successful charlatan exploiting the second-century Christians is given by Lucian in his Peregrinus.
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The want of all those decent charlatanisms which men of every profession are almost necessitated to employ, and the sudden and unushered nature of his coming were, perhaps, the cause of this ill-success.
Paul Clifford — Complete
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My inquiries reveal that most of these are caused by exercise programmes devised by ignorant charlatans feeding off our need for health.
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Simple arguments, sensational media, and corporate charlatans are all guilty of these kind of sweeping statements - I call it myth making.
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Baudelaire, in his essay on laughter, refers to the humorless as “spiteful pundits of solemnity” and “charlatans of gravity.”
The Best American Poetry 2010
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The team does not feel the average person today is as ignorant toward shams and charlatans as they might have been just ten years ago.
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Anyway, here are the words; go vote: apathetic babymoon blamestorm charlatan conundrum cruft eleemosynary facebook hypocrite linkability melancholy
December 2007
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In the eyes of the Star Tribune, he is one of the know-nothings and charlatans waging war on law and reason and science and medicine.
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No. She isn't a miracle worker. She isn't even a doctor. She's a complete charlatan.
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These people are cheats, fraudsters, charlatans and hoaxers.
