charlatan

"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

Jerry uses his “you-betcha” Midwestern accent to disguise his discontent, but beneath his charlatan smile lurks a rotten, greedy soul.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2026

The sentencing judge found that Peters was motivated by vanity and personal aggrandizement rather than genuine concern for election integrity, describing her as a charlatan who used her former position to peddle disproven claims.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2025

I want to think he’s an actor, a charlatan, a fake.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

Liberal Democrat MP Tom Morrison said the government needs "a proper regulatory framework to make sure these charlatans that are putting out bogus sleep advice on social media... are held to account."

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

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

And though it’s much easier now to find books and other media taking a range of perspectives on menopause, it’s also easy to be waylaid by influencers, charlatans and factionalism.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 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