The word 'quack' is a perfectly correct and usable word in written English.
Generally, 'quack' is used as a noun to refer to a person who fraudulently claims to have medical skills or expertise. For example, "The patients were duped by a quack who prescribed them harmful treatments that weren't actually effective."
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.
The group of doctors last week urged university officials to remove Oz from a faculty position on the grounds that he promotes "quack treatments" and "has repeatedly shown disdain for science and for evidence-based medicine, as well as baseless and relentless opposition to the genetic engineering of food crops".
Ian Birrell worked as a speechwriter for David Cameron in the 2010 election campaign George Osborne's tax giveaway to big corporations, with aggressive cuts to corporate tax rates and new corporate tax loopholes, is quack medicine built on economic fallacies.
Don't worry – whatever you've done, The Simpsons' quack doctor has done already and worse.
It is time analysts stop chanting the refrain that what France and other eurozone countries need is "structural reform" – usually a euphemism for wage cuts that would reduce demand even further – and wake up before their quack remedies kill the patient.
Should a widget maker decide between Polish initial public offerings and the Nikkei?" The complexity of investing may leave many savers prey to quack financial salesmen or, simply, to confusion.Perhaps the biggest worry, however, is a bear market.
Fully 86% of the women of reproductive age in the poor world outside China and India (which have liberal abortion laws) live in countries that restrict it tightly.Back-alley abortions in such countries may involve homemade drug-cocktails, traditional healers and other quack remedies, as well as amateur surgery.
In it the Martians really are little green men who quack like ducks and sport craniums that are a cross between a skull and the Mekon of Mekonta arch-villain of the old Dan Dare coMekonta arch-villain
And the emperor's Praetorian Guard is terrified that Patrick Fitzgerald, a special prosecutor, may indict leading members of the administration.All second-term presidents become lame ducks (though they seldom limp and quack this early).
The answer, in a nutshell, is Ralph Fiennes".Faith Healer", about a man who may or may not be a quack, is antithetical to the sort of high-octane Big Moment theatre on which Broadway thrives.
The French know it as la méthode Coué, after an early 20th-century quack who touted the curative value of autosuggestion.
