(n.) The acts of a person pretending to be a physician\; the boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism.

absurdity acting affectation amphigory appearance attitudinizing babble babblement balderdash balls baloney bamboozle beguile betray bibble-babble blabber blague blagueur blather blatherskite bluff bluffer bluffing bombast bosh bull bullshit bunk bunkum cajole charlatan charlatanism charlatanry cheat on cheating circumvent claptrap color coloring conjure crap deceive deception delude delusion diddle disguise dissemblance dissembling dissimulation double-cross double-talk drivel drool dupe eyewash facade face fake fakement faker fakery faking false air false front false show falsity feigning feint fiddle-faddle fiddledeedee flam flapdoodle flimflam flummery folderol forestall four-flushing fourflusher fraud front fudge fustian gabble galimatias gammon get around gibber gibberish gibble-gabble gilt gloss gobbledygook gull gyp hoax hocus-pocus hogwash hoke hokum hooey hornswaggle humbuggery impersonator impostor imposture jabber jargon jiggery-pokery juggle let down malarkey malingerer masquerade meretriciousness mislead mock moonshine mountebank mumbo jumbo narrishkeit niaiserie nonsense ostentation outmaneuver outreach outsmart outward show outwit overreach pack of nonsense palaver phony piffle pigeon play one false playacting pose poser poseur posing posture prate prattle pretender pretense pretension pretext put something over quack quackery quackishness quackism quacksalver quackster rant representation rigamarole rigmarole ringer rip-off rodomontade rot rubbish saltimbanco seeming sell semblance sham shammer show simulacrum simulation skimble-skamble snow speciousness spoof string along stuff and nonsense stultiloquence take in trash trick trumpery twaddle twattle twiddle-twaddle two-time vaporing varnish waffling window dressing