How to Use charlatan in a Sentence

charlatan

noun

• But does that mean Boyce Watkins is a con artist or a charlatan?
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 6 Feb. 2018
• And for that, we were called fear mongers, charlatans, and scam artists.
  — Eric Spitznagel, Popular Mechanics, 27 Dec. 2019
• What if the person claiming to be your soul mate is a charlatan?
  — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2020
• Hinton Rowan Helper was one such, a bit of a charlatan with a streak of genius.
  — Charles R. Morris, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2019
• In Simpson’s just-the-facts-ma’am telling, Browder is a charlatan.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 13 Jan. 2018
• These Christians have fallen for a cut-rate King David, a charlatan Solomon, a false prophet.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 7 June 2018
• Some are charlatans soaking the rubes for a few drachmas.
  — David Sturm, Columbia Flier, 15 Sep. 2017
• And regardless of what all the charlatans will tell you, there is no magic cure.
  — Ellie Delano, Woman's Day, 2 Apr. 2013
• In his races, Perot provided a road map for a populist charlatan to reach the White House.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 9 July 2019
• Will weight-loss drugs put diet charlatans out of business?
  — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
• Will weight-loss drugs put diet charlatans out of business?
  — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
• Those limoges fish forks didn’t belong to some charlatan!
  — Mattie Kahn, Town & Country, 18 Nov. 2022
• Reb Berish had many times made up his mind not to have any more conversations with his boarder, the charlatan who had gone through hell and remained no good.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
• But that may only leave a vacuum to be filled by the next glittery charlatan to catch the media’s attention.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• His account of the charlatans of digital influence rings true to me.
  — Clint Watts, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2019
• The cynicism is, of course, rooted in Trump’s being a pathological liar and a charlatan, a flim-flam man.
  — Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2024
• Here the prime character is Theodor Morell, Hitler’s private physician, a slick and fawning charlatan.
  — Dagmar Herzog, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2017
• The Better Deal is a first step in reclaiming the mantle of economic populism from charlatans like Trump.
  — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 28 July 2017
• The Better Deal is a first step in reclaiming the mantle of economic populism from charlatans like Trump. ...
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2017
• The twist is that the kids and their biological dad, a guy who happens to be the object of a cruel charlatan queen’s (Sylvia Hoeks) obsession, can see.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 28 Oct. 2019
• Much of that has to do with him pledging allegiance to the same party that would elect a real estate charlatan who can't even be trusted to proofread his own tweets.
  — Michael Arceneaux, Essence.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• This is the paradox of Éric Zemmour: those who accept him as he is see him as a charlatan, and most of those who love him might want a fundamental part of him to disappear.
  — James McAuley, The New York Review of Books, 16 Dec. 2021
• Their tactics worked and, over time, the pejorative meaning of charlatan stuck.
  — Elizabeth Heath, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2023
• Neither a charlatan nor a virtuoso, Michael Bay is simply Michael Bay.
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Dec. 2019
• Labels such as phony and charlatan were some of the kinder criticisms leveled against Osteen.
  — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 10 Sep. 2017
• Smith, whether a charlatan or a holy man, was a marketing guru in the best American tradition.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
• He was revered as a guru, condemned as a dangerous charlatan, adored and reviled by millions.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2021
• Is the thoroughly inscrutable David Hanson a genius or a charlatan?
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 June 2022
• Benedetta’s rise to power ignites the indignation of Sister Christina (Louise Chevillotte), who tries to out her as a charlatan and a heretic.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2021
• Suddenly the guy who used to describe Trump as a dangerous and tawdry charlatan was telling anyone who’d listen that Trump was the only person fit to lead this country.
  — Scott Maxwell, Orlando Sentinel, 16 July 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024