charlatanism
71imposture — Synonyms and related words: acting, affectation, appearance, artifice, attitudinizing, ballot box stuffing, bluff, bluffing, bunco, cardsharping, charlatanism, charlatanry, cheat, cheating, color, coloring, copy, copying, counterfeit,… …
72ISLA, JOSÉ FRANCISCO DE — a Spanish Jesuit, celebrated as a preacher and a humorist and satirist of the stamp of Cervantes; his principal work Friar Gerund, a satire on the charlatanism and bombast of the popular preaching friars of the day, as Don Quixote was on the… …
73affectation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Artificiality of manner Nouns 1. (affected quality) affectation, affectedness, artificiality, insincerity, histrionics, ostentation; charlatanism, quackery (See deception); pretense, gloss, veneer,… …
74falsehood — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of honesty Nouns 1. falsehood, falseness, dishonesty; falsity, falsification; deception, untruth; lying, misrepresentation, disinformation, plausible denial; mendacity, perjury, forgery, invention,… …
75quackery — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. charlatanism, pretense, misrepresentation, imposture; see deception 1 , dishonesty …
76charlatan — (n.) 1610s, from Fr. charlatan (16c.), from It. ciarlatano a quack, from ciarlare to prate, babble, from ciarla chat, prattle, perhaps imitative of ducks quacking. Related: Charlatanism …
77quackeries — quack·er·y || kwækÉ™rɪ n. fraudulence, charlatanism; dishonesty, deceit …
78quackery — quack·er·y || kwækÉ™rɪ n. fraudulence, charlatanism; dishonesty, deceit …
79charlatan — [ ʃα:lət(ə)n] noun a person falsely claiming to have a special knowledge or skill. Derivatives charlatanism noun charlatanry noun Origin C17 (denoting an itinerant seller of supposed remedies): from Fr., from Ital. ciarlatano, from ciarlare to… …
80empiricism — n. 1. Dependence on experience, reliance on the evidence of sense alone. 2. (Philos.) Empirical philosophy, sensationalism, sensualism, theory of the sole validity of sense. 3. Quackery, charlatanism, charlatanry …
