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• n  a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes

• Call him a wizard or a charlatan, like him or hate him, but you can only ignore Boris at your own peril.
• It is a sad commentary of our times that one who was hailed as a hero is now demonized as a charlatan and a usurper.
• No one can actually predict the weather, and anyone who claims he can is either a fool or a charlatan.

• mountebank

News & Articles

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• Inside Dr. Barry Sears’ Zone Diet
  Dr. Barry Sears was cast in the mainstream as a radical and a charlatan in the nutrition world. But has he been right all along?
  June 15, 2013 - Triathlete / Inside Triathlon

Quotes

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• Ron Silver in Washington Times
  Michael Moore and that faction of the party was one of the factors that did not let me support the Democratic nominee this year,Mr. Silver said. "He is a charlatan in a clown suit. I compare him to [Hitler propagandists] Leni Riefenstahl...
• Conrad Black in National Post
  I understand he meant well by his reference to The Great Gatsby, but Gatsby was an amiable charlatan who ended up being murdered in his own swimming pool,Lord Black wrote in a response to Mr. Rees-Mogg.
• Ayman al-Zawahri in Malaysia Star
  This charlatan accused Islam of being incompatible with rationality while forgetting that his own Christianity is unacceptable to a sensible mind,Zawahri said.