Sentence examples for of a quack from inspiring English sources

But they see Ed Balls as even more of a quack doctor.

For four eventful years, Ryan could come across as charmingly bombastic or — let's face it — as kind of a quack.

That includes poor Dr. Hull, who turns out to be something of a quack with a regulation loser's life.

A beautiful lady, living in Los Angeles, falls under the spell of a quack doctor who discovers her secret shame.

Such stunts might lead readers to conclude that Ferriss is something of a quack, but he is careful to issue disclaimers.

And people know that promises of quick fixes and more spending this country can't afford, at times like this, are like the promises of a quack doctor selling a miracle cure".We do not offer that today.

But to see how loudly and willingly the people of Texas have responded to a quack job like Trump reveals just how many Texans don't have all their ducks in a row.

The set, which became increasingly comedy-oriented, hit a low point when Breuker, on soprano saxophone, gave his impression of a quacking duck, a barking dog, a bumblebee and then of laying an egg--with an actual egg passed around among the musicians.

In "The Cure of Folly," a quack is shown extracting a stone from a man's head, a literal portrayal of the period metaphor that "a stone in the head" meant a person was mad.

Recently Jill Lepore, a history professor at Harvard, published a fierce article in the New Yorker accusing another Harvard professor, Clayton Christensen, of being a quack.

This makes him an easy target for the sales pitch of Dr. Dulcamara, a quack who peddles an elixir that he says can grow hair, cure rickets and do almost anything (even combat bedbugs, which would make the stuff popular in New York).