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quack
A fraudulent healer or incompetent professional, especially a doctor of medicine; an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice medicine.
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  1. A fraudulent healer or incompetent professional, especially a doctor of medicine; an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice medicine.
  2. An untrained person who pretends to be a physician and dispenses medical advice and treatment.
  3. Any person who pretends to have knowledge or skill in a particular field; charlatan
pretender
One who sets forth a claim, especially a claimant to a throne.
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  1. One who sets forth a claim, especially a claimant to a throne.
  2. (Person, proper) In English history, the son or the grandson of James II
  3. A person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold.
fraud
An intentional misrepresentation uttered to cause another to rely on it to his detriment. An intentional misrepresentation uttered to cause another to rely on it to his detriment.
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  1. An intentional misrepresentation uttered to cause another to rely on it to his detriment. An intentional misrepresentation uttered to cause another to rely on it to his detriment.
  2. A person who deceives or who is not what he or she pretends to be; impostor; cheat
  3. (--- Law) Intentional deception to cause a person to give up property or some lawful right
fake
Anything or anyone not genuine; fraud; counterfeit
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  1. Anything or anyone not genuine; fraud; counterfeit
  2. One that is not authentic or genuine; a sham.
  3. (Sports) A brief feint or aborted change of direction intended to mislead one's opponent or the opposing team.
fraud
Something said or done to deceive; trick; artifice
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  1. Something said or done to deceive; trick; artifice
  2. A person who deceives or who is not what he or she pretends to be; impostor; cheat
  3. (--- Law) Intentional deception to cause a person to give up property or some lawful right
humbug
Something intended to deceive; a hoax or fraud.
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  1. Something intended to deceive; a hoax or fraud.
  2. A person who is not what he or she claims to be; impostor
  3. Something made or done to cheat or deceive; fraud; sham; hoax
impostor
One who engages in deception under an assumed name or identity.
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  1. One who engages in deception under an assumed name or identity.
  2. A person who pretends to be someone or something that he or she is not, as to deceive or cheat others
  3. Someone who attempts to deceive by using an assumed name or identity.
mountebank
One who sells by deception; a con artist; a charlatan.
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  1. One who sells by deception; a con artist; a charlatan.
  2. (Historical) A person who mounted a bench, or platform, in a public place and sold quack medicines, usually attracting an audience by tricks, stories, etc.
  3. A hawker of quack medicines who attracts customers with stories, jokes, or tricks.
phony
A person who is not what he or she pretends to be; one who deceives, dissembles, is insincere, etc.; fraud
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  1. A person who is not what he or she pretends to be; one who deceives, dissembles, is insincere, etc.; fraud
  2. A fraudulent or dishonest person.
  3. A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.
pretender
A claimant to an abolished or already occupied throne.
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  1. A claimant to an abolished or already occupied throne.
  2. One who sets forth a claim, especially a claimant to a throne.
  3. A person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold.
quack
A fraudulent healer or incompetent professional, especially a doctor of medicine; an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice medicine.
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  1. A fraudulent healer or incompetent professional, especially a doctor of medicine; an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice medicine.
  2. The sound made by a duck, or any sound like it
  3. Any person who pretends to have knowledge or skill in a particular field; charlatan
Find another word for charlatan. In this page you can discover 16 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for charlatan, like: quack, pretender, fraud, cheat, impostor, quack, fake, faker, fraud, humbug and impostor.

Sentence Examples

  • The famous charlatan Cagliostro was also arrested, but it was recognized that he had taken no part in the affair.

  • Alexander had remarkable beauty and the striking personality of the successful charlatan, and must have been a man of considerable intellectual abilities and power of organization.

  • But the pupil soon found his teacher to be a charlatan, and taught himself, aided by commentaries, to master logic, geometry and astronomy.

  • The king himself was indeed a semi-idiot, scarce responsible for his actions, yet his was the era of such striking personalities as the brilliant charlatan Struensee.

  • A quack is one who pretends to knowledge of which he is ignorant, a charlatan, particularly a medical impostor.

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