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Meanings of quack doctor in English
Someone who practices medicine without proper qualifications and/or promotes ineffective medical treatments.
Synonyms
Examples for "quack"
Examples for "quack"
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.
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.
Usage of quack doctor in English
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.
6
He was born in North America, and began life, it is said, as a quack doctor.
7
The quack doctor equally in ethics and in physics has played a leading part in human affairs.
8
You came here last night with the Earl of Rochester in the disguise of a quack doctor.
9
He had the feeling of a man who has stooped to be doped by a quack doctor.
10
Even a quack doctor will not attempt diagnosis or prescribe his nostrum without some knowledge of the symptoms.
11
Chronic ailments require long treatments, so as to make long bills and many visits for the quack doctor.
12
And the quack doctor a chancellor!
13
She went home, and interested her father in the fate of the innocent little victim of the quack doctor.
14
It is a fair-day; I shall drive straight into the market-place, blow my horn, and play the quack doctor.
15
In his sickness he had consulted a quack doctor, who told him that he could cure him by charms.
16
To see a quack doctor in your dreams, denotes you will be alarmed over some illness and its improper treatment.