noun. A person who makes elaborate, fraudulent, and often voluble claims to skill or knowledge; a quack or fraud.

noun. One who pretends to knowledge, skill, importance, etc., which he does not possess; a pretender; a quack, mountebank, or empiric.

noun. Synonyms Impostor, cheat, pretender; Mountebank, etc. (see quack).

noun. One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank.

noun. A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit.

noun. a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes

"This huckster or streetcorner charlatan is going to be a lame duck in less than a year from now as the coward in theif dosen't realize that the independents that ELECTED him are running from his BS and LIES in droves."

charlatanism  charlatanry  

beguiler  cheat  cheater  deceiver  slicker  

craniologist  phrenologist  quack  

adventurer  blackleg  blackmailer  deceiver  demagogue  

blagueur  bluff  bluffer  charlatanic  charlatanish