Sentence examples for quack with from inspiring English sources

There, control of the president was seized by a quack with the incredible name of Dr. Doctor Willard Bliss.

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

A mismatched pair head westward in a camper van on the trail of a mysterious doctor — part prophet, part quack — with whom both have secret business.

I liked the local quack with the drink-puffed nose, resigned to being forever underpaid ("Who do you think I am, Mother Teresa?"); the sad captain of a ship, quietly asking Karinna to hit him in the face; and, most sleep-disturbing of all, the boss-eyed madman at the cockfight, plucking a blade from nowhere.

Sotheby's competes with Christie's in much the same way that one plastic surgeon competes with another; people tend to entrust their chins and their estate sales to the guy they know, not to the quack with the lowest price... [The two auction houses] were in a business tailor-made for what economists call "conscious parallelism" — price-fixing without the smoke-filled room..

It was the Davis Luiz conundrum in a nutshell: is he a mercurial genius with a PhD in the science of defending, or an eccentric quack with a convincing illusion of effectiveness; a doctorate in the defensive equivalent of homeopathy?

Overy notes that Leonard Woolf was obliged to retitle some of his books for American publication: "Barbarians at the Gate" became "Barbarians Within and Without," and after some debate "Quack Quack," his critique of capitalism, became "Quack-Quack," with a hyphen.

They were sold typically by quacks with no legitimate medical training, and were responsible for tens of thousands of misdiagnoses every year.

It seems barely credible that Victorians once flocked in droves to private Bloomsbury consulting rooms to have costly quacks with delicate fingers probe the surface of their heads looking for bumps and depressions indicating the relative strength of such qualities as benevolence, veneration and firmness, or to assay how much "amativeness" — sexual desire — might lie untapped within your skull.

Worried about quack treatments with stem cells?

"Oh, my god," blurted the quack dentist with the iffy bladder.