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Significats de quacksalver en anglès

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Someone who practices medicine without proper qualifications and/or promotes ineffective medical treatments.

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Examples for "quack"
Examples for "quack"
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The duck recovered enough to quack in a feeble and dubious manner.
Foul Play
2
In cases of indiscretion, the quack treatment is always with mercury-notwithstandingdenials.
Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations /...
3
Unable to supply themselves, the majority became the victims of quack traders.
The Voyage of Captain Popanilla
4
The quack waved his great hands as though brushing aside a curtain.
The Lost House
5
There was a terrible amount of sickness aggravated by American quack remedies.
The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dor...
1
Quesnel followed her lead with the consummate skill of a natural charlatan.
Imprudence
2
He was a charlatan, and also not an especially good aeronautic designer.
Wired
3
This is not the conduct of the charlatan, not of the self-seeker.
AE in the Irish Theosophist
4
I once thought him wise, but now I know he's a charlatan.
Song of the Nile
5
Anybody who thinks of him as a charlatan needs to be sectioned.
The Guardian
1
In short, botany had won for me the reputation of a quack doctor.
More Hunting Wasps
2
And somebody even said I must be a quack doctor's ghost.
The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes: His Fortunes and Misfortunes as...
3
Ambrose was reminded of a quack doctor in poor circumstances.
The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
4
At Tamworth, you have been practising as a quack doctor?
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 5, 1841
5
He was something of a quack doctor and always kept things necessary for such cases.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel
Ús de quacksalver en anglès
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And now away-orremain and see if the end of the quacksalver belies his life.
The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day
2
Am I not yclept quacksalver by those that come not near me, and wizard by those I heal?
The Cloister and the Hearth
3
They're a clever pack of quacksalvers, the Moths, and nobody ever quite knows what they're after.
Empire in black and gold
4
There are quacksalvers who will sell you anything.
Sir Mortimer: A Novel
5
"Quacksalver," Howard shot back, informing ignorant Ant-Ant Anthony that he was a charlatan.
A dark matter
Col·locacions frequents
Quacksalver a través del temps