Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or of the character of a charlatan; quackish: as, charlatanic tricks; a charlatanic boaster.

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

  • adjective Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish.

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  • adjective charlatanical

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Examples

  • Policy Exchange report is exposed by BBC Newsnight as charlatanic hate mongery.

    Archive 2007-12-09 2007

  • Policy Exchange report is exposed by BBC Newsnight as charlatanic hate mongery.

    Policy Exchange: Tory Connected "Charity" and Forgeries 2007

  • Think not that charlatanic genius rests content with triumphs even so transcendent as these.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various

  • I felt, however, a certain amount of honest indignation at what seemed to me his charlatanic manner of putting off on people his random and improvised suggestions regarding questions which seemed to me then of vital importance to society.

    The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901

  • It is no charlatanic boasting, but the simple truth, when we affirm that the different natural methods of treatment, as we of the Nature

    Nature Cure Henry Lindlahr 1893

  • He studied all the books of chemistry which at that period were attainable, — a period when, in the world, it was a science far unlike what it has since become; and when Septimius had no instruction in this country, nor could obtain any beyond the dark, mysterious, charlatanic communications of Doctor Portsoaken.

    Septimius Felton, or, The elixir of life 1872

  • I felt, however, a certain amount of honest indignation at what seemed to me his charlatanic manner of putting off on people his random and improvised suggestions regarding questions which seemed to me then of vital importance to society.

    The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I William James Stillman 1864

  • Not yet aware of this truth, nor, indeed, in the least suspecting Gawtrey of worse offences than those of a charlatanic and equivocal profession, the young man mused over his protector's cowardice in disdain and wonder: till, wearied with conjectures, distrust, and shame at his own strange position of obligation to one whom he could not respect, he fell asleep.

    Night and Morning, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Of the principal character thus introduced (the celebrated and graceful, but charlatanic, Bolingbroke) I still think that my sketch, upon the whole, is substantially just.

    Devereux — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Not yet aware of this truth, nor, indeed, in the least suspecting Gawtrey of worse offences than those of a charlatanic and equivocal profession, the young man mused over his protector's cowardice in disdain and wonder: till, wearied with conjectures, distrust, and shame at his own strange position of obligation to one whom he could not respect, he fell asleep.

    Night and Morning, Volume 3 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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