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plural charlatans
(obsolete) A mountebank, someone who addresses crowds in the street; (especially), an itinerant seller of medicines or drugs. quotations
The poor foreigner, more dead than alive, answered that he was an Italian charlatan, who had practised with some reputation in Padua […] .
1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […]
A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit. quotations examples
That this disgraceful charlatan holds one of the great offices of state in this country should be a source of constant shame and embarrassment to the Prime Minister.
2018 June, Ian Murray, The Independent