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  • Base thieves and charlatans!  (source)
  • My father said the doctor was a charlatan and this was why we needed to keep struggling against ignorance.†  (source)
  • He'd expected the sort of frothy, holy-rolling charlatan that he'd seen preaching near Torrance when he was a boy.†  (source)
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  • When he talked, he was lawyer and bard and crossroads charlatan at once, arguing his case, entertaining, pulling back the veil to show you the secrets of the world.†  (source)
  • Scourge of the chicken-soup psychologists and the charlatans of his profession?†  (source)
    charlatans = people who pretend to have capabilities they lack
  • An outer show elaborated through centuries, and nothing but charlatanism and nonsense underneath," flashed through Miuesov's mind.†  (source)
  • They did have a theory of morals and they tried to live by it (I should not have sneered at their motives) but their theory was wrong — half of it fuzzy-headed wishful thinking, half of it rationalized charlatanry.†  (source)
  • But he is now, and has always been, a liar, a charlatan and a crook.†  (source)
  • The new Charlatans album.†  (source)
  • This, he considered, was the only basis of solid instruction; all other means of education were mere charlatanism, and could produce nothing better than smatterers.†  (source)
  • Go ahead and despise it in favor of some sort of hocus-pocus of insinuation and emotional charlatanry—and the Devil will definitely have you in his—†  (source)
  • He ran a long feature on George Vandeveer, charlatan attorney for the Wobbly defense in the Everett Massacre deliberations.†  (source)
  • Tired of the pain in his bones and the secret illness that only he perceived, he had decided it was time to be examined by foreign doctors; he had reached the premature conclusion that Latin doctors were all charlatans who were closer to sorcerers than scientists.†  (source)
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