Sample sentences for CHARLATAN

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Definition

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

charlatans = people who pretend to have capabilities or knowledge they lack

"Charlatan!" exclaimed Alberto.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World

charlatan = one who pretends to have capabilities or knowledge they lack

Base thieves and charlatans!
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom

charlatans = people who pretend to have capabilities or knowledge they lack

How can I be expected to work with this charlatan?
Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl

charlatan = someone who pretends to have knowledge or capabilities they lack

I'm not a charlatan, I'm an actor—good or bad, an actor.
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley

charlatan = one who pretends to have capabilities or knowledge they lack

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

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