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

“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

Santos, a person normally immune to a life of truth, correctly called Ziwe out for why she would pursue a sit-down talk with him knowing that he is the ultimate loathsome charlatan.

From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2024

He ran a long feature on George Vandeveer, charlatan attorney for the Wobbly defense in the Everett Massacre deliberations.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

Cook said audience research had revealed the public liked him taking on the crooks and charlatans but they didn't actually want to see him getting hit.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 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

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

This is a battle for control among con artists, charlatans, social media celebrities and mobsters.

From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2023

Parapsychology Interest in parapsychology is very old, yet the simple fact is that there have been no repeatable studies which have demonstrated its existence, Uri Geller and other charlatans notwithstanding.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos