Charlatan

Noun

 * 1) A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit.

Adjectives for Charlatan
shameless; ambitious; preying; industrial; accomplished; ingenious; barred;

Synonyms

 * swindler
 * mountebank
 * fraudster
 * con-artist
 * con-man
 * imposter, impostor
 * fraud
 * phony
 * fake
 * See also Thesaurus:deceiver

Related terms

 * charlatanism
 * charlatanry

Thesaurus
fake, faker, fourflusher, fraud, horse doctor, humbug, impersonator, impostor, malingerer, medicaster, medicine man, medicine monger, mountebank, phony, poser, poseur, pretender, quack, quackish, quacksalver, quackster, ringer, saltimbanco, sham, shammer, blagueur, bluff, bluffer, charlatanic, charlatanish,

Etymology
From charlatan: <  ciarlatano:, a, literally, a native of Cerreto, a village in Umbria, known for its quacks.

Translations

 * Armenian: ընդվայրաբան,
 * Bulgarian: шарлатанин
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: charlatan
 * Finnish:, puoskari
 * German:
 * Hebrew: שרלטן
 * Hungarian: sarlatán


 * Indonesian: penipu
 * Italian:
 * Polish: szarlatan
 * Portuguese: charlatão
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: sarlatan

Etymology
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