charlatan

In Renaissance England, skillful surgeons and herb-dispensing healers competed with charlatan doctors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

And that is alarming, because Kennedy is a charlatan who opposes evidence-based medicine and promotes discredited quackery.

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2025

Passing sentence Judge Geoffery Baker QC described Saeed as a "charlatan", who had carried out a deception that had been "cunningly contrived, skilfully executed, and brazenly maintained over three decades".

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 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

Other charlatans have tried to take advantage of those desperate to get on the sponsored list, which was made public two weeks ago.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

The magician Ricky Jay’s compendium of actual “unique, eccentric and amazing entertainers” offers a parade of con artists, charlatans, escapologists, daredevils, mesmerists, contortionists and sideshow acts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

The series toes a delicate line, showing why alternative remedies can be so appealing to patients frustrated with traditional medicine, but also illustrating how dangerous charlatans are willing to exploit that desperation for personal gain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 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

"No, Brother, we have to make such decisions ourselves. Even if we must sometimes appear as charlatans."

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison