Quacks

Word QUACKS
Character 6
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /kwæks/

Definitions and meanings of "Quacks"

What do we mean by quacks?

The sound made by a duck.

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The word "quacks" in example sentences

A close sequence of quacks is the hen mallard distress signal. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That is science, but as for destroying the cancer bacillus they leave that to the physicians whom they call quacks for curing what the professors cannot cure. ❋ Unknown (1856)

"The consequence would be that, as now, anybody who pleases might practise; for the medical world is well aware that there is no power of preventing what they call quacks from practising. ❋ Augustus De Morgan (1838)

Other types of healers are considered to be at best harmless as long as they confine themselves to minor complaints; at worst, when naturopaths, hygienists, or homeopaths seek to treat serious disease conditions they are called quacks, accused of unlicensed practice of medicine and if they persist or develop a broad, successful, high-profile and ❋ Isabel Moser (N/A)

There are two kinds of charlatans or people called quacks to-day. ❋ Unknown (1905)

A heroic people chooses heroes, and is happy; a valet or flunkey people chooses sham-heroes, what are called quacks, thinking them heroes, and is not happy. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

A heroic people chooses heroes, and is happy; a valet or flunky people chooses sham-heroes, what are called quacks, thinking them heroes, and is not happy. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

For years the makers of therapeutic magnets were called quacks and snake-oil salesmen. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Usborne reveals that surgical abortions in the Weimar years were not necessarily safer for women than those done by "quacks": In 1921 an anonymous collection of cases from university maternity hospitals was published in which hundreds of women were said to have died from medical abortions performed by gynecologists under the 1917 guidelines. ❋ Suzanne (2010)

I, personally, have been careful to state nothing more than I know (and goodness me he has just owned up to more), but he indulges in much cruder ad hominem when he just calls all dissidents "quacks". ❋ Unknown (2008)

In an interview with Environmental Science & Technology, you made highly derogatory personal comments about me, including the statement that Dr McKitrick and I were "quacks". ❋ Unknown (2006)

Interviews with various eminent climate scientists produced much frothing at the mouth, a statement from Jerry Mahlman that we were "quacks", from Mann that our articles were "garbage". ❋ Unknown (2005)

In the ES&T article, Jerry Mahlman, rather than using ad hominem techniques like discussing biases in principal components methodology, spurious significance of RE statistics or the validity of bristlecone pines as temperature proxies, described us simply as "quacks". ❋ Unknown (2005)

Mugabe's government has repeatedly denied the allegations, dismissing the report as the work of "quacks". ❋ Unknown (2002)

It is from women who are suffering with such diseases, -- most of them without the slightest idea of what ails them, -- that the venders of advertised nostrums reap their fortunes, and it is from the same victims that most of the advertised medical "quacks" look for their blood-money. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The negro quack doctor pretended that he could have cured him in two days, and that the white "quacks" would leave him for a month in bed. ❋ Sarah Bernhardt (1884)

The procession was brought up by the ducks, which waddled out of the ship, some with an expression of grave surprise, some with "quacks" of an inquiring nature, others with dubious steps and slow, while a few, with an eye to the "main chance" made ineffectual dabs at little roughnesses in their pathway, in the hope that these might turn out to be edible. ❋ Unknown (1859)

Instead of being derided as "quacks," they should be classed as hereditary specialists. ❋ Unknown (1856)

Their latest weapon is name calling - most notably, labeling them "quacks". ❋ Unknown (2010)

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