charlatan
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"We were worried he was a charlatan," Audrey says.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
These days, however, Mr. Sharpton is much closer to a charlatan than a kingmaker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
And that is alarming, because Kennedy is a charlatan who opposes evidence-based medicine and promotes discredited quackery.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2025
“You abused your position and you’re a charlatan who used and is still using your prior position in office to peddle a snake oil that’s been proven to be junk time and time again.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2024
I want to think he’s an actor, a charlatan, a fake.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
Ms. Adelman describes how Lewis’s specimens fell into the hands of a series of botanists—some of them charlatans, drunkards, liars or thieves—who squandered his legacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Some charlatans are involved in unscrupulous traditional so-called cures, and have been known to sell good luck charms that involve body parts.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2025
TikTok, for instance, is awash in medical disinformation, people claiming to be haunted by demons, and charlatans offering psychic readings through the computer.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2025
Over the centuries, it has endorsed only a small percentage of the thousands that have been claimed, in an effort to protect the faithful from charlatans, doctrinal errors or attempts to profit.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2024
“I’ll find a specialist...someone who knows what he’s doing...not like those charlatans in white coats that call themselves doctors.”
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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