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Charlatanic

Charlatanic \Char`la*tan"ic\, Charlatanical \Char`la*tan"ic*al\, a. Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish. -- Char`la*tan"ic*al*ly, adv.

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charlatanic

a. charlatanical

Usage examples of "charlatanic".

Of the principal character thus introduced (the celebrated and graceful, but charlatanic, Bolingbroke) I still think that my sketch, upon the whole, is substantially just.