a traveling carnival that was run by fakirs preying on small-town rubes a fakir peddling patent medicines that were mostly liquor and sugar
Recent Examples on the WebBankman-Fried has refined the persona of a dishevelled, savantlike techno-fakir. Gideon Lewis-kraus, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022 To be fair, the new nationalists have done their best, explicitly and repeatedly, to distance their emerging movement from white nationalists, alt-right fakirs, strident isolationists, and other assorted cranks. John Hood, National Review, 28 Aug. 2019