CHARLATANRY Synonyms

• the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

• the quality of being fraudulent

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• a fraudulent or duplicitous representation

• acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another

• the act of faking (or the product of faking)

• a fraudulent or duplicitous representation

• the quality of being fraudulent

• something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

• pretending to be another person

• the act of giving a false appearance

• pretending with intention to deceive

• imaginative intellectual play

• a false or unsupportable quality

• an artful or simulated semblance

• medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings

• the dishonesty of a charlatan

• something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

• a person who makes deceitful pretenses

• adopted in order to deceive

• make a pretence of

• make believe with the intent to deceive

• verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

• the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

• deprive of by deceit