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Examples
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There was not a particle of charlatanerie about Dupin.
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Humboldt, that "it is one of those discoveries which, when stripped of all the _charlatanerie_ that surrounds them, will show but a very meagre portion of truth."
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The publisher, far from drinking his wine out of the skull of his author, is in danger of having neither wine nor ordinary cup, and is forced into the most reckless _charlatanerie_ to save himself from utter ruin and complete loss of the generous fluid.
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It has been done by fifty others, and is at best but an imperfect exhibition on a perfect instrument; a mere piece of charlatanerie, or theatrical 'gag,' to use a professional term, sufficiently intelligible.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various
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So long as half his subjects are tainted with charlatanerie and the other half with hysteria we physiologists must content ourselves with the body and leave the mind to our descendants.
The Parasite 1894
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So long as half his subjects are tainted with charlatanerie and the other half with hysteria we physiologists must content ourselves with the body and leave the mind to our descendants.
The Parasite Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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I desire on all subjects to keep an open mind, but hitherto the various phenomena, reported or attested in connection with ideas of spirit intercourse and so on, have come before me here in the painful form of the lowest charlatanerie ....
The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Stowe, Charles Edward 1889
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I desire on all subjects to keep an open mind, but hitherto the various phenomena, reported or attested in connection with ideas of spirit intercourse and so on, have come before me here in the painful form of the lowest charlatanerie ....
Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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There was not a particle of charlatanerie about Dupin.
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But a single detection of charlatanerie is not effectual to destroy a prevalent superstition.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795
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