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Charlatanry   Listen
noun
Charlatanry  n.  Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Charlatanry" Quotes from Famous Books



... on his countenance; "yet all this approximation to the philosopher's stone wringeth not one single crown out of my Lord Leicester's pouch, and far less out of Richard Varney's. WE must have earthly and substantial services, man, and care not whom else thou canst delude with thy philosophical charlatanry." ...
— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott

... and had already spent a morning at the Hotel Dieu, where the operator, warned that his visitor was a bold and skilful surgeon, whose reputation in England was already considerable, had sought to dazzle him by feats that savoured almost of legerdemain. Though the hint of charlatanry in the Frenchman's methods had not escaped Arthur Burdon's shrewd eyes, the audacious sureness of his hand had excited his enthusiasm. During luncheon he talked of nothing else, and Dr Porhoet, drawing upon his memory, recounted ...
— The Magician • Somerset Maugham



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