charlatan

1 Certain types — charlatans, wastrels and freeloaders, many of them Indian — accumulate troublingly, as does the kind of servant who pines for the good old days when they wore white gloves to serve dinner.

2 While posing worthwhile "questions about an icon's phenomenology, about a living saint's fame and the devout consumers of that celebrity," Luzzato playfully stops short of calling Pio a charlatan.

3 In the document, church leaders expressed concern about charlatans attempting to make money or gain power by manipulating people's beliefs.

4 While mocking the pseudo-scientific use of magnets to treat disease, he even neatly sums up the power of all charlatans: “Induce belief and blind confidence, and you may do any thing.”

5 Licensure exists in part to preserve quality control and prevent charlatans from peddling bogus treatments.

6 Every charlatan in the world seems to believe that attaching “quantum” to a word makes it magical and powerful and unquestionable.

7 There will also be a few publicity-hungry charlatans who will make loud and wholly unrepresentative noises about the wrath of Islam and burning down Chris Morris's house.

8 Phoebe can’t imagine what Michael would have made “of the ease by which, once the war began to swallow the young, those left behind succumbed” to scientific-sounding charlatans, with their “resuscitated parlor tricks.”

9 Max Joseph is known for digging into the lives of online charlatans on-camera.

10 It’s aimed at protecting the economic establishment from new ideas and realities such as global warming, while providing financial and personal opportunities for grifters and charlatans.

11 For most people, fantasies and myths are more compelling and easier to comprehend, especially if they are conveyed by charismatic charlatans and demagogues using deceptive technologies.

12 The idea that a charlatan might offer more solace than a real priest is a trite concept, but it’s one that “Corpus Christi” portrays with conviction.

13 I was also reminded of Tom Murphy's outstanding 1983 play, The Gigli Concert, in which a charlatan English therapist gives a Dublin businessman the self-confidence to believe he can sing like the great Italian tenor.

14 Or is he a charlatan with no meaningful powers at all?

15 "You see, I'm actually a charlatan from Omaha."

16 Stan has empty pockets and a mysterious past, and while others might run screaming, he soon joins the show’s roster of creepy and putatively charming charlatans.

17 The Daily Beast reported last month that Mr. Lee, who is said to be worth around $50 million, was “surrounded by a panoply of Hollywood charlatans and mountebanks” and being “picked apart by vultures.”

18 The phrase echoed his resolve to keep in memory his creative forebears: the illusionists and enchanters, the charlatans and cardsharps, the human cannonballs, armless artists, learned animals and practitioners of ancient acts that still amaze.

19 The reason reporters call these people gurus is that they are not sure how to charlatan.

记者称这些人是大师,是因为他们自己不清楚“江湖骗子”这个词怎么写.

20 In their memo, YAF warned young conservatives to stay away from TPUSA, painting Kirk as a charlatan who inflated his organization’s influence and padded the group’s numbers with “racists and Nazi sympathizers.”

1 江湖郎中

mountebank quacksalver quack

2 庸医

quack empiric quacksalver empirical quackish medicaster crocus empiricist mountebank barber-surgeon quackishly quackster quackishness saltimbanco

3 吹牛

windy bouncing swanky blown-up braggart gascon tooting rodomontade magniloquent flamdoodle gas bounce crap swank braggadocio gassiness munchausen blague tinhorn bazoo cockalorum fanfaronade four-flush blow stretch pitch blast bull romance vapour swagger quack gasconade kvell line shooting

4 吹牛者

blowhard flanneler blow windy humbug fanfaron quacksalver blagueur flannelmouth

5 骗子

fraud fake cheat rogue liar counterfeit jockey crook gouge rook shaver sharpie quack jackal trickster bilk sharper gyp mountebank sciolist shicer bunyip slicker spieler highbinder four-flusher have sharp kite cheater decoy twister fiddler weasel swindle impostor juggler humbug lurcher wide boy con woman confidence trickster shark rat con artist hustler shill deceiver con man operator conman grifter illywhacker a bad lot fraudster knave twice thimblerig skin beat leg greek projector hawk sham phony ringer pretender rigger faker biter cajole phoney hoodwink skinner tricker bluffer gip beguiler chiseler pettifog shammer quacksalver magsman faitour flimflammer warlock blackleg bunco man jive ass fast counter confidence man pocket hunter take-in shit-heel shit-hook clip-artist gypper clip Greek con stiff booster idol coyote hustle burglar mace dingo spritzer come-on duffer racketeer duper pettifogger twicer saltimbanco chouse

6 假充内行的

snobbish

7 蒙混

hide-and-seek shuffle deacon fudge

8 骗人的

two-tongued forked-tongued fake misleading wildcat deceptive crook spoof deceitful tortuous fly-by-night knavish cogged quackish

9 江湖医生

quack

10 骗人

two-tongued forked-tongued fake misleading wildcat deceptive crook spoof deceitful tortuous fly-by-night knavish cogged quackish trick

11 欺骗

double-tongued funny prestigious cheating delusive gyp tricksy trickish flamdoodle suck-in have do sell kid pass trick false fraud cheat rig lurk bluff juggle delusion hoax deceit trickery wile swindle gaff stealing subterfuge circumvention indirection gammon hocus imposture hokum skullduggery skulduggery hocus-pocus trickiness flimflam roguery cozen flivver shenanigan jiggery-pokery jugglery humbuggery dupery swizz swiz chouse inveracity thimblerig yentz string impose fox deceive gag two-time spoof duff illude double-clock horn-swoggle take job short green beat lie burn abuse smoke hook bite spin trim palm fool rim stall gum bitch hustle hum fiddle jockey cog dope skunk doodle dupe fob gull defraud victimize lurch delude jive bamboozle flam euchre double-cross razzle-dazzle cully gold-brick befool take-in leg-pull skin game double cross monkey business

12 冒充内行的人

quack

13 假内行

snob

14 假充内行

snobbish snobbery