Sample Sentences for
charlatan
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    How can I be expected to work with this charlatan?  (source)
    charlatan = someone who pretends to have knowledge or capabilities they lack
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    Bobby Kennedy thinks LBJ is a political charlatan.†  (source)
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    My father said the doctor was a charlatan and this was why we needed to keep struggling against ignorance.†  (source)
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    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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    Scourge of the chicken-soup psychologists and the charlatans of his profession?†  (source)
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    Here are two signatures of the German text—in my opinion, the crudest charlatanism; it discusses the question, 'Is woman a human being?'†  (source)
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    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)
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    I'm only a cave-dwelling charlatan.†  (source)
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    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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    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)
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    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)
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    "Charlatan!" exclaimed Alberto.†  (source)
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    Too many charlatans.†  (source)
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