a. [f. CHARLATAN sb. + -ISH1.] Savoring of a charlatan, charlatanical.
1826. App. to Shaks., 146/2. to Mountebank, to play the mountebank; to cheat, gain by quackish or charlatanish deceit, craft.
1846. Blackw. Mag., LX. 121. [It] was charlatanish and contemptible.
1861. Sat. Rev., 18 May, 512. Charlatanish and generally interested eulogies of virtue.
