Associations to the word «Charlatan»

Wiktionary

CHARLATAN, noun. A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit.

Dictionary definition

CHARLATAN, noun. A flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne