charlatan
charlatan is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abroad
- acrobat
- actor
- adventurer
- and
- ass
- bel
- bidder
- bon
- buffoon
- bungler
- bunko
- cap
- capper
- caricaturist
- carpetbagger
- cheat
- clothing
- clown
- cockatrice
- conjuror
- corps
- crimp
- dandy
- deceive
- deceiver
- decoy
- devil
- dissembler
- duck
- empiric
- epigrammatist
- esprit
- faker
- false
- flusher
- fool
- four
- fraud
- gaillard
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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