An infamous person, a deceiver, charlatan, recreant.

An impostor, cheat; esp. a vagrant who shams illness or pretends to tell fortunes.

A cheat, impostor. Obsolete. rare.

A deceiver, impostor, cheat. (In quot. 1485 apparently a trifler: cf. trumpery, n. adj.)

As a term of contempt: = creature, n.

Apparently: deceiver, cheat, impostor.

A person who prowls, in various senses; spec. (a) (formerly) †one who seeks advantage by any underhand or dishonourable means; a parasite; a…

A deceiver, an impostor.

A deceiver, cheat, impostor.

A sharper, cheat, deceiver, beguiler.

A person who makes a profession or assertion, esp. falsely or hypocritically; a person who lays claim to an ability, quality, skill, etc., esp…

One who imposes on others; a deceiver, swindler, cheat; now chiefly, one who assumes a false character, or passes himself off as some one other…

gen. A charlatan, a person who falsely claims knowledge of or skill in some matter, esp. for personal gain; a person who pretends to be something…

Vaguely used for: Impostor, deceiver. Obsolete.

A person who cheats, dupes, or deceives people.

A person who deceives or deludes another; a pretender. Obsolete.

One who assumes or takes to himself; who makes claims, pretensions, or suppositions.

As the type of something showy or insubstantial, with reference to the gilt or other decoration… (as a mock title or ironic term of praise) a…

A petty practitioner in any activity, a beginner, novice; esp. one who makes false claims to skill or knowledge, a charlatan, pretender.

One who carries a wallet; ? a mountebank, charlatan (obsolete); a strolling player.

In extended use: = quack, n.2 2.

depreciative. An untrained or inexpert person who behaves as if knowledgeable; a pretender; a charlatan. Cf. sense A. 2c. Now rare.

†(a) a person who throws or launches a missile (obsolete); †(b) a person who passes something off fraudulently (obsolete); (c) a procrastinator.

In extended use: any person who dishonestly claims to have special knowledge or skill in any field; = charlatan, n. 3.

An impostor.

A mountebank; a quack.

A person who looks for chances of personal advancement, esp. one willing to take risks or use dishonest methods to attain it; one who lives by his…

A cheat, an impostor.

One who shams. One who deceives or tricks with false pretences. Obsolete.

One who imposes: in various senses of the verb.

An empiric who pretends to possess wonderful secrets, esp. in the healing art; an empiric or impostor in medicine, a quack.

One who tries to delude, a humbug. Obsolete.

Applied to a person. A deceiver, an impostor.

transferred. A cheat, imposter, pretender. Obsolete.

slang. A trickster, cheat, impostor.

A shammer, impostor.

A term of contempt for: an alchemist or quack doctor. Obsolete. rare.

one who humbugs or practises imposture; a humbug, impostor.

One who ‘gags’, cheats, or hoaxes.

An impostor, humbug.

A person that practises deception; an impostor, a ‘fraud’.

derogatory. A fool. Also: an impostor, an upstart.

One who or that which turns about, turns from side to side, rotates, etc. One who turns this way and that; figurative one who shuffles or…

A professional, esp. a lawyer or preacher, who is incompetent, lacks skills or training, or behaves in an unscrupulous or dishonest way. Also…

colloquial of a person: One who is not what he appears to be; an impostor, a humbug; spec. U.S. (see quot. 1895).

An impostor. Hence attributive. Obsolete.

depreciative. An untrained or ignorant person who behaves as if knowledgeable; a charlatan; = empiric, n. 4. Obsolete.

One who bluffs at poker, etc. Originally U.S.

(a) a person who puts something down (in various senses) (see to put down at put, v. phrasal verbs 1); esp. a person who disparages someone or…

Australian slang. A person who deceives, exploits, or imposes on others (see also quot. 1967). Now rare.