Someone who practices medicine without proper qualifications and/or promotes ineffective medical treatments.
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Examples for "quack"
Examples for "quack"
1The duck recovered enough to quack in a feeble and dubious manner.
2In cases of indiscretion, the quack treatment is always with mercury-notwithstandingdenials.
3Unable to supply themselves, the majority became the victims of quack traders.
4The quack waved his great hands as though brushing aside a curtain.
5There was a terrible amount of sickness aggravated by American quack remedies.
1Quesnel followed her lead with the consummate skill of a natural charlatan.
2He was a charlatan, and also not an especially good aeronautic designer.
3This is not the conduct of the charlatan, not of the self-seeker.
4I once thought him wise, but now I know he's a charlatan.
5Anybody who thinks of him as a charlatan needs to be sectioned.
1And now away-orremain and see if the end of the quacksalver belies his life.
2Am I not yclept quacksalver by those that come not near me, and wizard by those I heal?
3They're a clever pack of quacksalvers, the Moths, and nobody ever quite knows what they're after.
4There are quacksalvers who will sell you anything.
5"Quacksalver," Howard shot back, informing ignorant Ant-Ant Anthony that he was a charlatan.
1In short, botany had won for me the reputation of a quack doctor.
2And somebody even said I must be a quack doctor's ghost.
3Ambrose was reminded of a quack doctor in poor circumstances.
4At Tamworth, you have been practising as a quack doctor?
5He was something of a quack doctor and always kept things necessary for such cases.
6He was born in North America, and began life, it is said, as a quack doctor.
7The quack doctor equally in ethics and in physics has played a leading part in human affairs.
8You came here last night with the Earl of Rochester in the disguise of a quack doctor.
9He had the feeling of a man who has stooped to be doped by a quack doctor.
10Even a quack doctor will not attempt diagnosis or prescribe his nostrum without some knowledge of the symptoms.
11Chronic ailments require long treatments, so as to make long bills and many visits for the quack doctor.
12And the quack doctor a chancellor!
13She went home, and interested her father in the fate of the innocent little victim of the quack doctor.
14It is a fair-day; I shall drive straight into the market-place, blow my horn, and play the quack doctor.
15In his sickness he had consulted a quack doctor, who told him that he could cure him by charms.
16To see a quack doctor in your dreams, denotes you will be alarmed over some illness and its improper treatment.
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