Charlatan

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A person who makes elaborate, fraudulent, and often voluble claims to skill or knowledge; a quack or fraud.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who pretends to knowledge, skill, importance, etc., which he does not possess; a pretender; a quack, mountebank, or empiric.
  • n. Synonyms Impostor, cheat, pretender; Mountebank, etc. (see quack).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cheat    beguiler    deceiver    trickster    slicker    cheater   
    Hyponym
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    quack    impostor    empiric    mountebank    phony    con-man    swindler    fraudster    fake    fraud   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    impostor    quack    hypocrite    schemer    mountebank    liar    swindler    adventurer    trickster    pretender