charlatanism
81quackery — n. Charlatanism, charlatanry, empiricism, mummery, imposition, pretension, humbug …
82humbug — I. n. (Colloq.) 1. Imposition, imposture, fetch, deception, fraud, trick, cheat, gammon, dodge, gouge, blind, feint, chouse, hoax. 2. Charlatanry, charlatanism, quackery, mummery, cant, hypocrisy. 3. Impostor, charlatan, quack, cheat. II. v. a.… …
83imposture — n 1. imposition, exploitation, swindle, swindling, defraudation, bunco, misrepresentation; hoax, trick, artifice, wile, ruse; deception, duplicity, double dealing, sharping, sharking; cheating, trickery, cozenage, chicanery, knavery; confidence… …
84pose — I v 1. affect, attitudinize, act, play to, make a show of; assume, put on airs, Sl. put on the dog, profess; feign, pretend, fake, sham, go through the motions; bluff, deceive, dissemble, posture; show off, swank, be vain, talk big, boast. 2.… …
85quackery — n charlatanism, charlatanry, sciolism, humbuggery, humbug; imposture, trickery, chicanery, knavery, fraudulence; deception, cozenage, delusion, fraud, sham; swindle, hoax, U.S. Inf. bunko, defraud ment, misrepresentation; sharping, sharking,… …
86roguery — n 1. knavishness, rascality, roguishness, churlishness; villainy, miscreancy, reprobacy, incor rigibleness; blackguardism, currishness, caddishness, dastardliness, quackery, Archaic. quacksalvery, mountebankery, charlatanism; imposture,… …
87shoddy — n 1. imitation, imposter, dummy, pinchbeck, junk, plastic, tinsel, tickytacky, brummagem, bastard, whited or painted sepulcher; sham, deception, hoax, mockery, mock, make believe, Inf. put on, Inf. whitewash job; forgery, counterfeit, spurious… …
88charlatan — n. impostor; quack. ♦ charlatanic, a. ♦ charlatanism, ♦ charlatanry, n …
89charlatan — ► NOUN ▪ a person falsely claiming to have a certain expertise. DERIVATIVES charlatanism noun charlatanry noun. ORIGIN Italian ciarlatano, from ciarlare to babble …
90charlatanry — charlatan ► NOUN ▪ a person falsely claiming to have a certain expertise. DERIVATIVES charlatanism noun charlatanry noun. ORIGIN Italian ciarlatano, from ciarlare to babble …
