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one who pretends to have capabilities or knowledge they lack- She's a charlatan and a cheat.
charlatan = one who pretends to have capabilities or knowledge they lack
- Is it possible that you are a charlatan at heart?Conrad, Joseph -- The Arrow of Gold
- Some highly paid charlatans in the media think it's absolutely fine to take a wild guess at the truth and then tell a couple of million people it's cast-iron fact, just in case they might be right.Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
- "Charlatan!" exclaimed Alberto.Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
- Base thieves and charlatans!Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
- How can I be expected to work with this charlatan?Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
- I'm not a charlatan, I'm an actor—good or bad, an actor.John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
- Like the charlatan who counterfeits a spiritual force he has sometimes felt, they lose the power they have abused.Maugham, W. Somerset -- Moon and Sixpence
- "Allow me to warn you," interposed General Ivolgin, "that he is the greatest charlatan on earth."Dostoyevsky, Fyodor -- The Idiot
- This feeling is also at times played upon by religious charlatans, who are to be found in savage as well as civilized life.Irving, Washington -- The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West
- Surely nobody would be a charlatan who could afford to be sincere.Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, Second Series
- "Ulysses," replied Alcinous, "not one of us who sees you has any idea that you are a charlatan or a swindler."Homer -- The Odyssey
- Scourge of the chicken-soup psychologists and the charlatans of his profession?Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
- He'd expected the sort of frothy, holy-rolling charlatan that he'd seen preaching near Torrance when he was a boy.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- But he is now, and has always been, a liar, a charlatan and a crook.Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst
- Even if we must sometimes appear as charlatans.Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
- The time had come, Hamilton said, when "men of real integrity" must unite against all charlatans.David McCullough -- John Adams
- 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—Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
- Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
- Would not he, the cad, the charlatan, attempt a more dramatic finish?E.M. Forster -- A Room With A View
charlatans = people who pretend to have capabilities or knowledge they lack
charlatan = one who pretends to have capabilities or knowledge they lack
charlatans = people who pretend to have capabilities or knowledge they lack
charlatan = someone who pretends to have knowledge or capabilities they lack
charlatan = one who pretends to have capabilities or knowledge they lack