charlatanry

  • 41hypocrisy — I noun artfulness, charlatanism, charlatanry, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, dishonesty, dissembling, dissimulatio, double dealing, duplicity, false profession, falsification, fraud, fraudulence, fraus, front, guile, hollow pretense, imposture …

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  • 42Hegelians (The Young), Feuerbach, and Marx — The Young Hegelians, Feuerbach, and Marx Robert Nola Largely through lectures delivered at the University of Berlin, Hegel built up a circle of followers, mainly contemporaries or pupils, who were intent on working out aspects of the… …

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  • 43humbug — Synonyms and related words: absurdity, acting, affectation, amphigory, appearance, attitudinizing, babble, babblement, balderdash, balls, baloney, bamboozle, beguile, betray, bibble babble, blabber, blague, blagueur, blather, blatherskite, bluff …

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  • 44hypocrisy — Synonyms and related words: Pecksniffery, Pharisaism, Tartuffery, Tartuffism, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, artfulness, artificiality, cant, casuistry, charlatanism, charlatanry, chicanery, craft, cunning, deceit,… …

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  • 45imposture — Synonyms and related words: acting, affectation, appearance, artifice, attitudinizing, ballot box stuffing, bluff, bluffing, bunco, cardsharping, charlatanism, charlatanry, cheat, cheating, color, coloring, copy, copying, counterfeit,… …

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  • 46falsehood — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of honesty Nouns 1. falsehood, falseness, dishonesty; falsity, falsification; deception, untruth; lying, misrepresentation, disinformation, plausible denial; mendacity, perjury, forgery, invention,… …

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  • 47humbug — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. deceiver, imposter, pretender; deception, hoax, fraud; charlatanry. See falsehood. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Deception] Syn. lie, fraud, hoax, sham; see deception 1 , fake , nonsense . 2. [An impostor]… …

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  • 48hypocrisy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. deceit, dissembling, pretense, falsity, insincerity; sanctimony, cant, Phariseeism. See falsehood, impiety. Ant., honesty, sincerity. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. quackery, casuistry, pharisaism,… …

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  • 49charlatan — [ ʃα:lət(ə)n] noun a person falsely claiming to have a special knowledge or skill. Derivatives charlatanism noun charlatanry noun Origin C17 (denoting an itinerant seller of supposed remedies): from Fr., from Ital. ciarlatano, from ciarlare to… …

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  • 50empiricism — n. 1. Dependence on experience, reliance on the evidence of sense alone. 2. (Philos.) Empirical philosophy, sensationalism, sensualism, theory of the sole validity of sense. 3. Quackery, charlatanism, charlatanry …

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