charlatanry
Americannoun
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charlatanries
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The tendency is to understand it as the cousin of affectation, one of the dark arts of charlatanry.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 9, 2016
It marries the language of self-help charlatanry to the style of popular cosmology and the no-nonsense authenticity of backyard tinkering.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2015
Scientific charlatanry is one of their main interests, and the Wild West nature of China's booming economy has given them no shortage of material.
From Time ● Sep. 8, 2010
To reinforce that pattern, Hollywood bloomed in the 1920s, adding a permanent "population of genius, neurosis, skill, charlatanry, beauty, vice, talent and plain old eccentricity."
From Time Magazine Archive
Up to this time, I had not taken any stock in the science, which I set down as charlatanry and mountebankism.
From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis
His style is clear, polished, graceful, and harmonious, combining a flowing movement with condensation, and free from the tricks and charlatanries of diction.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor
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