Sentences with quack
quack
Q q - I went everywhere for treatment, tried all sorts of quacks.
- Why do intelligent people find quack remedies so appealing?
- What doesn't kill can cure, as many a quack doctor spruiking dubious tonics declared through the centuries.
- But similarly, a new-age quack healer would disagree with a brain surgeon.
- There were ducks quacking on the lawn. [VERB]
- Suddenly he heard a quack.
- One theory is that the sound of the quack tails away, which makes the echoes difficult to hear.
- I'm sorry to say that it's not true about the quack of a duck.
- A quack doctor
- A quack psychologist who complicates everyone's problems.
- As we took off, I could hear a faint quack of relief from Archie's new acquaintances.
- My comments on quack medicine have brought on challenges from some readers.
- quack medicine.
- quack methods.
- I hope you grow donkey ears and quack like a duck!
- It is to help those who have fallen for the lies and deceit of quack medicine and pseudoscience.
- ‘It's starting to walk like a duck and quack like a duck,’ remarked Engelke.
- An alternative medicine quack reckoned he could cure Faulkner of his twitching with a six-month course of treatment.
- You are drawn to the plight of the bird in the air pump, the sad and frightened girls and the wild eyes of the quack scientist.
- As we've said before, that's a totally quack claim.
- She will also turn her attention to Irish ducks, which presumably quack with an agreeable brogue.
- Some of these remedies have been closer to quack concoctions.
- But even from the vague hints he throws out, I think we may rest assured it will not be the last quack of a lame duck.
- I mean, I'm not gonna quack like a duck for a consequence.
- Depressed by the abundance of absurd claims for quack alternative therapies, he had set up the site as a credulity experiment.
- They are saying they do not want the project to go ahead, full stop, because it is quack medicine.
- Among the modern evils to fall under Ince's scrutiny was quack alternative medicine.
- As with most quack cure claims about ‘toxins’, the actual toxins were not named.
- It helps if you can whip the populace into a panic like some snake oil salesman, then sell them the quack cure.
- A lifestyle guru is a modern sort of mountebank, selling quack advice instead of false medicines.
- Ducks wake up and quack and swim away as we pass on the narrow walks, little packs of 20 or so ducks.
- We should be looking at changing our lifestyles, not stuffing ourselves full of quack medicine.
- Quack1, charlatan both apply to a person who unscrupulously pretends to knowledge or skill he or she does not possess, but , quack2 almost always is used of a fraudulent or incompetent practitioner of medicine; , mountebank, in modern use, applies to a person who resorts to cheap and degrading methods in his or her work, etc.; , impostor applies especially to a person who fraudulently impersonates another and, more generally, to anyone who is a hypocrite; , faker is an informal term for a person who practices deception or misrepresentation