How to Use charlatan in a Sentence

charlatan

noun
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  • Anthony Trollope wrote about scheming bankers and charlatans too.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 June 2024
  • But does that mean Boyce Watkins is a con artist or a charlatan?
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 6 Feb. 2018
  • And for that, we were called fear mongers, charlatans, and scam artists.
    — Eric Spitznagel, Popular Mechanics, 27 Dec. 2019
  • What if the person claiming to be your soul mate is a charlatan?
    — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2020
  • Hinton Rowan Helper was one such, a bit of a charlatan with a streak of genius.
    — Charles R. Morris, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2019
  • In Simpson’s just-the-facts-ma’am telling, Browder is a charlatan.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 13 Jan. 2018
  • These Christians have fallen for a cut-rate King David, a charlatan Solomon, a false prophet.
    — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 7 June 2018
  • Some are charlatans soaking the rubes for a few drachmas.
    — David Sturm, Columbia Flier, 15 Sep. 2017
  • And regardless of what all the charlatans will tell you, there is no magic cure.
    — Ellie Delano, Woman's Day, 2 Apr. 2013
  • In his races, Perot provided a road map for a populist charlatan to reach the White House.
    — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 9 July 2019
  • Will weight-loss drugs put diet charlatans out of business?
    — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Will weight-loss drugs put diet charlatans out of business?
    — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
  • Those limoges fish forks didn’t belong to some charlatan!
    — Mattie Kahn, Town & Country, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Reb Berish had many times made up his mind not to have any more conversations with his boarder, the charlatan who had gone through hell and remained no good.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
  • But that may only leave a vacuum to be filled by the next glittery charlatan to catch the media’s attention.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • His account of the charlatans of digital influence rings true to me.
    — Clint Watts, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Here the prime character is Theodor Morell, Hitler’s private physician, a slick and fawning charlatan.
    — Dagmar Herzog, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2017
  • The Better Deal is a first step in reclaiming the mantle of economic populism from charlatans like Trump.
    — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 28 July 2017
  • The Better Deal is a first step in reclaiming the mantle of economic populism from charlatans like Trump. ...
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2017
  • The twist is that the kids and their biological dad, a guy who happens to be the object of a cruel charlatan queen’s (Sylvia Hoeks) obsession, can see.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Much of that has to do with him pledging allegiance to the same party that would elect a real estate charlatan who can't even be trusted to proofread his own tweets.
    — Michael Arceneaux, Essence.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • This is the paradox of Éric Zemmour: those who accept him as he is see him as a charlatan, and most of those who love him might want a fundamental part of him to disappear.
    — James McAuley, The New York Review of Books, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Their tactics worked and, over time, the pejorative meaning of charlatan stuck.
    — Elizabeth Heath, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Neither a charlatan nor a virtuoso, Michael Bay is simply Michael Bay.
    — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Dec. 2019
  • Labels such as phony and charlatan were some of the kinder criticisms leveled against Osteen.
    — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 10 Sep. 2017
  • Smith, whether a charlatan or a holy man, was a marketing guru in the best American tradition.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
  • He was revered as a guru, condemned as a dangerous charlatan, adored and reviled by millions.
    — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Is the thoroughly inscrutable David Hanson a genius or a charlatan?
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 June 2022
  • Benedetta’s rise to power ignites the indignation of Sister Christina (Louise Chevillotte), who tries to out her as a charlatan and a heretic.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2021
  • This builds suspense for the audience about this seemingly evil and obvious charlatan.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2024

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