Person engaging in deceptive practices.
Someone who practices medicine without proper qualifications and/or promotes ineffective medical treatments.
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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 I am not a swindler , and I guard myself; that is all.
2 He has the stuff in him for a very clever, fashionable swindler .
3 The man was an international swindler and was wanted by the police.
4 A plan to confuse and outwit the swindler occurred to our hero.
5 The swindler was not there, nor was he on the adjoining roof.
1 The mountebank is wanted in the streets, the jester at the Louvre.
2 A mountebank in Leicester Fields had drawn a huge assembly about him.
3 There are those who call this nonsense and its author a mountebank .
4 I am a travelling mountebank , who plays farces at fairs and markets.
5 Why, the man would be a mountebank if he adopted any other.
1 Ailbhe Malone decides if she is a faker or a shaker.
2 If his shock was faked, he was a damn good faker .
3 He was playing the violin for a faker on the town common this afternoon.
4 The judges can see you're faker than a knockoff Vuitton.
5 He's the faker ! He pulled on York's muttonchops, yanking him down to the floor.
1 Unfortunately, the lawyer he trusted was a shyster of the worst sort.
2 Things aren't done in just that way-not even by shyster lawyers.
3 Mr. Brann attacked hypocritic preachers, snide politicians, shoddy society people, shyster lawyers.
4 No sense mincing words with this little shyster from up north.
5 Here is where the shrewdness of Mose Kimmel, the shyster lawyer, came in.
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.
6 The charlatan used her earnings to buy some warded blade, that's all.
7 Massip is a magnificent canvas, without a single stroke of the charlatan .
8 Surely nobody would be a charlatan who could afford to be sincere.
9 Sam was the greatest charlatan in the memory of god or man.
10 Even so, the old charlatan did manage to have the last word.
11 Would not he, the cad, the charlatan , attempt a more dramatic finish?
12 Who is ever going to say yes to that question, except a charlatan ?
13 The Lutheran state church in Sweden naturally viewed the Preacher as a charlatan .
14 Some say he's presented as a charlatan , some say a genius.
15 The word charlatan once thrown on the air could not be let drop.
16 Perhaps this charlatan , Kazmah, was an accomplice in the pay of Sir Lucien.
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Translations for charlatan
Charlatan в диалектах
Соединенные Штаты Америки