Crossword-Solution: CHARLATANISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Charlatanism | n. | Charlatanry. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “CHARLATANISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ACQUIRING dishonestly | 47 answers |
| Shell game? | 53 answers |
| CONFIDENCE game | 54 answers |
| quackery | 64 answers |
| pretext | 78 answers |
| Inability | 84 answers |
| pretence | 85 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with CHARLATANISM (5)
Indeed, “charlatanism” is a misapplied word in this connection; for it would describe the doctor who puts on an artificial and conventional manner with his patients, rather than one who is absolutely frank and true to his own extraordinary nature.
Give me two pounds--and the crackers, ma'am.' “I turned away, quite as much disgusted as amused with this charlatanism.
Was there not more meaning in that sentence which followed--“He had theories of the power of the human will and of the effect of mind upon matter”? I remember having once read a quaint treatise, which I had imagined to be mere charlatanism at the time, of the power of certain human minds, and of effects produced by them at a distance.
But I should be recreant to my method, and the reader would have the right to accuse me of charlatanism and bad faith, if I had nothing further to advance concerning prescription.
Barnstable, true to his attitude of the plain business man, would have been the first to ridicule the idea publicly if anyone had dubbed him "the psychological detective." That, to his mind, would have savored of charlatanism.
Quotes with CHARLATANISM (3)
... it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it... Among the sayings & discourses imputed to him by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence: and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so m…
He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirituality, and that true spirituality always included service to others. As he explained many times, the essence of a good physician consisted of a capacity for compassion and a sense of the ethical, without which qualities the sacred art of healing degenerated into simple charlatanism.
Nothing could be more wrong than the old cliché that says any religion will do just as long as one is sincere. In no other area of life is there so much error, deception, and charlatanism as in religion.