| One can't discount the importance of protecting the public from charlatans and fly-by-night operations. |
| In the bad old days, some companies were little more than legalised charlatans. |
| There are an astounding number of plain frauds and charlatans in charge of the propaganda of the other side. |
| Still, where there is greed and desperation, charlatans and conners will prosper. |
| But you have to wonder whether confidence men and charlatans don't have some beef with this man for diminishing their reputation. |
| Like the mythical emperor's new clothes, the obscurity of highbrow discourse was merely a mystique that charlatans used to confound the gullible. |
