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Noun
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For them, the Nazarene is not a charlatan, but an upright man, one who has courage, who speaks well and says the right things, like other great prophets in the history of Israel.—
Daniel Burke,
NPR,
9 May 2025 -
It was bought for $40,000 in 1937 by medical charlatan Norman Baker.—
Jack Schnedler,
Arkansas Online,
5 May 2025
Noun
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Legitimate candidates face tougher hurdles while impostors glide through.—
Jack Kelly,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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The success of the impostor scam illuminates another reason criminals are able to bilk Americans today.—
Alana Semuels,
TIME,
18 Sep. 2024
Noun
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Sardonic in tone—its moralists are hypocrites, the church oppressive, and only the rebels are appealing—the book still plays it safe: slavery is all but absent from this version of Hannibal.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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Earlier this year, Trump’s top enforcer on border issues, Tom Homan, suggested the Pope was a hypocrite.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
21 Apr. 2025
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“Deceiver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deceiver. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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