Antonyms for charlatan


Grammar : Noun
Spell : shahr-luh-tn
Phonetic Transcription : ˈʃɑr lə tn


Definition of charlatan

Origin :
  • 1610s, from French charlatan "mountebank, babbler" (16c.), from Italian ciarlatano "a quack," from ciarlare "to prate, babble," from ciarla "chat, prattle," perhaps imitative of ducks' quacking. Related: Charlatanism; charlatanical; charlatanry.
  • noun swindler
Example sentences :
  • Surely nobody would be a charlatan who could afford to be sincere.
  • Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Hugh could not help thinking there was more or less of the charlatan about the man.
  • Extract from : « David Elginbrod » by George MacDonald
  • If I were a mountebank or a charlatan I would claim that it cures a hundred diseases.
  • Extract from : « The Gypsies » by Charles G. Leland
  • The charlatan, however, steadily refused the Bishop's advice.
  • Extract from : « The Minister of Evil » by William Le Queux
  • Where is the difference, after all, between you and any charlatan of the lot?
  • Extract from : « Robert Elsmere » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • This was no charlatan that spoke to him, but one in earnest who believed what he said.
  • Extract from : « Morning Star » by H. Rider Haggard
  • He was never at his ease in their society, and felt himself a kind of charlatan.
  • Extract from : « The Martian » by George Du Maurier
  • Would not he, the cad, the charlatan, attempt a more dramatic finish?
  • Extract from : « A Room With A View » by E. M. Forster
  • Thereupon he laid aside his awl to assume the dignity of a charlatan.
  • Extract from : « Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery » by Robert Means Lawrence
  • He was still a charlatan, but a charlatan who believed utterly in his star.
  • Extract from : « Red Men and White » by Owen Wister

Synonyms for charlatan

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