charlatan

• If we set out with the principle that every historical personage to whom acts have been attributed, which we in the nineteenth century hold to be irrational or savoring of quackery, was either a madman or a charlatan, all criticism is nullified. —  The Life of Jesus
• But he is a born charlatan--you've heard me tell him so to his face--a born charlatan, with a kind of dramatic trick of jumping into the limelight. —  The First Men In The Moon
• If he could be beaten as a charlatan, then such action of his enemies must naturally create a doubt in her mind. —  The Minister of Evil The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia
• Sainte-Beuve relates that Napoleon one day said, when somebody was spoken of in his presence as a charlatan: 'Charlatan as much as you please; but where is there not charlatanism?' —  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
• Dressed in his unseasonable suit, and accompanied by the still more ridiculous figure of Balbi in his gaudy cloak and without a hat, he imagined he would be taken for a charlatan or an astrologer The gondola slipped past the custom-house, and took the canal of the Giudecca. —  The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series

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