Someone who practices medicine without proper qualifications and/or promotes ineffective medical treatments.
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Examples for "charlatan "
Examples for "charlatan "
1 Quesnel followed her lead with the consummate skill of a natural charlatan .
2 He was a charlatan , and also not an especially good aeronautic designer.
3 This is not the conduct of the charlatan , not of the self-seeker.
4 I once thought him wise, but now I know he's a charlatan .
5 Anybody who thinks of him as a charlatan needs to be sectioned.
1 And now away-orremain and see if the end of the quacksalver belies his life.
2 Am I not yclept quacksalver by those that come not near me, and wizard by those I heal?
3 They're a clever pack of quacksalvers , the Moths, and nobody ever quite knows what they're after.
4 There are quacksalvers who will sell you anything.
5 " Quacksalver , " Howard shot back, informing ignorant Ant-Ant Anthony that he was a charlatan.
1 In short, botany had won for me the reputation of a quack doctor .
2 And somebody even said I must be a quack doctor 's ghost.
3 Ambrose was reminded of a quack doctor in poor circumstances.
4 At Tamworth, you have been practising as a quack doctor ?
5 He was something of a quack doctor and always kept things necessary for such cases.
1 The duck recovered enough to quack in a feeble and dubious manner.
2 In cases of indiscretion, the quack treatment is always with mercury-notwithstandingdenials.
3 Unable to supply themselves, the majority became the victims of quack traders.
4 The quack waved his great hands as though brushing aside a curtain.
5 There was a terrible amount of sickness aggravated by American quack remedies.
6 He spoke of hydrotherapy and gymnastic exercises, and called himself a quack .
7 Oppianicus then contrived to introduce to her a traveling quack from Ancona.
8 I am not altogether a quack , nor is this a county fair.
9 It wasn't very scary, but as scary as any quack could be.
10 A quack had brought a remedy which would cure gangrene, he said.
11 In Oliver's Protectorate, this quack informs us that he wrote freely enough.
12 Senator Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, denounced this proposition as a quack nostrum.
13 So I don't care a quack whether YOU like it or not.
14 It will be a wonder if she can do anything but quack !
15 Presently comes a whistling noise of wings, and a loud ' quack , quack ! '
16 Young people, you know-andcradled the next quack and a half.
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