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

Synonyms

mountebank

Used in print

(Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)

That 's why the FDA , the American_Medical_Association ( AMA ) , and the National_Better_Business_Bureau ( BBB ) have estimated the toll of mechanical quackery to be a substantial portion of the $ 610 million or_so paid to medical charlatans annually .

Related terms

deceiver quack phrenologist

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