As a practitioner of craniosacral therapy, Tom is often denounced as a charlatan.
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Charlatan
//ˈʃɑɹlətən//
Synonyms for "charlatan" (76 found)
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Closest matches (16)
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Related words (38)
Noun(18 words)
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2 entriescapable of
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4 entriesTranslations
47 translations across 32 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ὀχλαγωγός noun (malicious trickster)
Arabic
1 entries- دَجَّال noun (malicious trickster)
Armenian
2 entries- ընդվայրաբան noun (malicious trickster)
- շառլատան noun (malicious trickster)
Bulgarian
1 entries- шарлата́нин noun (malicious trickster)
Catalan
1 entries- xarlatà noun (malicious trickster)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 庸醫 /庸医 noun (malicious trickster)
- 騙子 /骗子 noun (malicious trickster)
Czech
1 entries- šarlatán noun (malicious trickster)
Danish
4 entries- charlatan noun (malicious trickster)
- fidusmager noun (malicious trickster)
- fupmager noun (malicious trickster)
- platugle noun (malicious trickster)
Dutch
1 entries- charlatan noun (malicious trickster)
Finnish
2 entries- huijari noun (malicious trickster)
- puoskari noun (malicious trickster)
French
1 entries- charlatan noun (malicious trickster)
Galician
1 entries- charlatán noun (malicious trickster)
German
1 entries- Scharlatan noun (malicious trickster)
Greek
1 entries- αγύρτης noun (malicious trickster)
Hebrew
1 entries- שרלטן noun (malicious trickster)
Hungarian
1 entries- sarlatán noun (malicious trickster)
Indonesian
2 entries- dukun noun (malicious trickster)
- penipu noun (malicious trickster)
Italian
1 entries- ciarlatano noun (malicious trickster)
Japanese
1 entries- 薮医者 noun (malicious trickster)
Korean
3 entries- 돌팔이 noun (malicious trickster)
- 사기꾼 noun (malicious trickster)
- 허풍선이 noun (malicious trickster)
Latin
1 entries- magus noun (malicious trickster)
Māori
1 entries- tohunga kēhua noun (malicious trickster)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- sjarlatan noun (malicious trickster)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- sjarlatan noun (malicious trickster)
Occitan
1 entries- charlatan noun (malicious trickster)
Persian
1 entries- شارلاتان noun (malicious trickster)
Polish
1 entries- szarlatan noun (malicious trickster)
Portuguese
1 entries- charlatão noun (malicious trickster)
Russian
2 entries- шарлата́н noun (malicious trickster)
- шарлата́нка noun (malicious trickster)
Spanish
3 entries- charlatán noun (malicious trickster)
- vendedor de crecepelo noun (malicious trickster)
- vendehúmos noun (malicious trickster)
Turkish
1 entries- şarlatan noun (malicious trickster)
Ukrainian
2 entries- дури́світ noun (malicious trickster)
- пройди́світ noun (malicious trickster)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
My mother thinks that the doctor is a charlatan.
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My mother believes that this doctor is a charlatan.
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Tom does not know the difference between a doctor and a charlatan.
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