charlatanry
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Origin of charlatanry
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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
Men of education and address entered the profession, thereby elevating it from the charlatanry of the strolling mountebank to the dignity of a theatrical performance.
From Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. by Stanton, Ellis
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