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charlatanry

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The practices of a charlatan; fraudulent or impudent pretension to knowledge or skill; quackery. Formerly written charlatanery.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun uncountable The state of being a charlatan
  • noun countable The act of a charlatan

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synonyms (4)

Words with the same meaning

  1. charlatanism
  2. empiricism
  3. quackery
  4. wheedling

same context (25)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. Paganini
  2. barracoon
  3. cajolery
  4. charlatanism
  5. disloyalty
  6. doublespeak
  7. duplicity
  8. empiricism
  9. gamesmanship
  10. hastiness
  11. improbity
  12. inexpertness
  13. knavery
  14. maladministration
  15. mendacity
  16. plagiarism
  17. politicization
  18. pretentiousness
  19. price-fixing
  20. pseudoscience
  21. quackery
  22. ranker
  23. realty
  24. sexualization
  25. turpitude

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