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"quack" Definitions
  1. the sound that a duck makes
  2. (informal, disapproving) a person who dishonestly claims to have medical knowledge or skills

156 Sentences With "quack"

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Clinton's campaign has responded by calling Trump's long-haired quack doctor a long-haired quack.
Mr. Helfand wrote several books on his unusual hobby, including "Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera and Books," which accompanied a 2005 exhibition of the same name at the Philadelphia museum.
When one duck began quacking at a vigilant camera operator, the duck-lover heard more faint quack-quack-quacking from beneath metal grates.
The Republican nominee, a peddler of quack politics, appears today on the daytime show hosted by Dr. Mehmet Oz, a peddler of quack medicine.
There were two paintings in which the President's unmistakable head appears more than once, "Quack-Quack, Trump" (2017) and "Donald Trump in Florida" (2017).
Early reports suggest that Trump's quack doctor has also given him a clean bill of health, which is meaningless given that Trump's doctor is a quack.
Furthermore, reduplicated words -- that is, words which contain repetition, such as "woof woof" or "quack quack" -- are typical of baby talk, and are known to have an advantage for early word learning.
This adorable pair of best friends will quack you up.
There are primers on quack medicine, mediumship and slate writing.
Have we not listened as they quack away into the ether?
Instead you put her in the hands of a hotel quack …!
Radiation and quack medical products have a long and infamous history.
I am extremely concerned that this doctor is essentially a quack.
Horns that most closely resembled a duck quack consistently performed the best.
The film about a quack that Lane refers to above is Nuts!
Enter Professor Helmut Quack (seriously!) of the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences.
It's time for quack-ulus class to get started at this school.
Daniel Pinchbeck has been called an icon, a visionary, and a quack.
Before graduate school, "I held this quack idea of cancer," he said.
Of course, that won't stop Trump from using fuzzy numbers and quack math.
Okay, I might've oversold this but, yep, our honk was originally a quack.
For Clinton, attacking Trump's doctor for being a quack is in keeping with her larger message, which is that Trump is a quack surrounded by quacks and, if elected, this group of quacks will start a nuclear war with France.
Playing poker, sometimes huddled disheveled over a table, he was known for uttering a signature "Quack, quack" when betting (usually a bet beginning with 22, the pair of numbers known in backgammon as double ducks and in poker as ducks).
If only giant rubber ducks could only speak, the stories this one would quack.
Dr. Oz is, in a word, a quack, a fraud, a snake-oil salesman.
Quack says that he tested 50 men from Düsseldorf and 50 men from Cologne.
On the positive side, quack grass is great for controlling soil erosion on steep slopes.
Quack doctor violet "saltwater fish" is her first show at 1301PE,  featuring new digital paintings.
That can cause malnutrition and eating disorders—and supports a vast, quack-ridden diet industry.
"For you," she says, falteringly, in a voice pitched between a quack and a chirp.
Maher challenged Chachoua on precisely zero of his assertions and furthered Chachoua's quack medicine agenda.
Each piece of rhizome can produce a new quack grass plant—in effect a natural clone.
Dispensing endless health advice to correspondents, Gandhi referred to himself self-deprecatingly as a "quack" doctor.
This duckling, whose fast-paced walk has an irresistible je ne sais quack quality to it.
Meanwhile, a duck popping out of the hamburger bun is accompanied by a comic strip speech balloon filled with the words "quack, quack," apparently in greeting toward an approaching one eyed, misshapen head flying a plane whose fuselage is a finger (this pilot gives a flying fuck).
And why Pakistani citizens don't seem to mind that their local doctor might be a total quack.
But they assert their power by believing in quack remedies and refusing to get their children vaccinated.
Mississippi wouldn't allow quack science to convict the wrong people if white citizens primarily bore the burden.
Kids can pet and snuggle with it, and the duck will cuddle back or cheerfully quack in response.
They look and quack like banks—but are in fact buy-out firms investing mostly rich-world money.
They look and quack like banks, but are in fact buy-out firms investing mostly rich-world money.
"You were a complete quack if you thought there [were] pre-Clovis sites in the Americas," said Halligan.
Behind each quack theory she finds groups of people who feel powerless or alienated in some significant way.
The problem is that the solution he offered—his supposed skills as a deal maker—was quack medicine.
Regulatory authorities must crack down on quack practices of all types, and ensure providers are trained and licensed.
The duck is unable to quack, but was scratching an old metal bed frame to get the neighbor's attention.
He added that many sites appear to intentionally blur the distinctions between approved, evidence-based scientific practices and quack procedures.
Khan's excuse was, naturally, that his split of the purse was too small, but many would quack in his direction.
And the enticingly simple but quack remedy of slamming the door on the continent and its citizens is no answer.
Yet from the quack ideologues to the out-and-proud neo-Nazis, some Alt-Right tenets are clear and constant.
" Other unsupported methods pushed by quack websites: exercise, masturbation, sex, vinegar, raspberry tea, and "cooking in a cast-iron skillet.
In early 1954, Pope Pius XII summoned a venerable Swiss quack named Paul Niehans to the papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo.
One quack-tastic fan took his fashion game to a whole new level, repping much more than the classic Ducks jersey.
And given the natural restorative powers of the human body, even a quack can have a patient who returns to good health.
All are involved in the Sisyphean task of knocking down the financial scams, inflammatory political statements, and quack science that deluge users.
They include the need to vaccinate children, the reality of climate change (inevitably) and applying a "Quack-O-Meter" to alternative medicines.
Of course, Morris did not invent ass injections and is not even the only quack accused of killing someone with that procedure.
All he did was quack "Aflac," but that didn't stop him from becoming one of the most famous mascots of the 2000s.
But it seems like it's spun out of control in a way that is just ... especially quack theories and things that rise.
I'd gone to the lecture against the advice of the learning specialist at my children's school, who thought Levine was a quack.
Elsewhere, we looked at the evolution of the X-Men franchise, reviewed the iPhone 11, and found the only good Gifs (quack!).
That's how a duck can quack in English, ga ga in Japanese, coin coin in French, kyra kyra in Russian, and so on.
After trying pills, cold showers and assorted quack remedies to control his debilitating allergies, he decided in desperation to visit the salt mine.
It was all about drawing eyeballs and, in turn, potential customers for the quack nutritional supplements that finance much of the Infowars operation.
Homeopathy is a quack theory of medicine that purports to treat sickness through the use of select substances that have been diluted in water.
And even for those fortunate enough to see a general practitioner, or more usually a semi-trained medic or quack, treatment is often dire.
The debunking website Science-Based Medicine concludes that electromagnetic pulse treatments like PEMF are a "quack scam" and calls them snake oil and pseudoscience.
And yes, the boorish behavior of the president and the porn star makes for better reading than an account of the quack running Interior.
After the trailer blew up in late 2017, we got a bunch of emails telling us that, actually, this was definitively a duck's quack.
In January the platform said it would no longer recommend videos that misinform users in harmful ways, like certain conspiracy theories and quack medical cures.
At some point in the second term of any presidency, the soaring eagle becomes a lame-duck with more quack than quake in its steps.
Critics of the law describe this disclaimer as the "quack Miranda warning"—a meaningless phrase invoked automatically to mask a range of unsupported medical claims.
During his first season, Eudy had a close friendship and alliance with returning player Mike "Boogie" Malin until they were both undone by The Quack Pack.
Medicine, for much of this book's timeline, was primitive: either rooted in natural herbs and Indian lore or traded away by quack doctors for jenever liquor.
The far-right radio show Infowars and its host, Alex Jones, have long promoted discredited and unproven quack remedies alongside conspiracies about liberal and scientific elites. 
During outbreaks of disease, Beijing's leaders have legitimate reason to be on alert for quack remedies and scaremongering fabrications, which can cause panic and do damage.
It went through drunk dials, heated hang-ups and many a quack — and now, we're happy to announce that the Jersey Shore duck phone is officially back.
Quack grass can grow in almost any type of soil (clay, sand, etc) or climate (although it is less common in tropical areas than in temperate climates).
And while quack funding might only represent a sliver of that pie, Vox is just the latest doctor to call for reforms in how these platforms operate.
One hoax that quickly went viral involves tweets and YouTube videos linking his death to a quack celebrity doctor — despite there being no evidence to the claim.
Prior to backing Donald Trump, Mercer's primary electoral investment had been in the unsuccessful congressional campaign of a quack scientist with an obsessive fixation on human urine.
Mr. Sheikh, his head full of testimonies from credible medical professionals, told the quack he had been recording their conversation, and threatened to sue him for malpractice.
At the end of the day many women, Muttreja believes, will still seek out the quack down the road because they fear being seen at the pharmacy.
During her 25-year reign as host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, from 153 to 2011, Oprah repeatedly showed a weakness for crackpots and quack medical theories.
His contribution to 212+222 is a life-sized, hand-painted resin sculpture of a penguin, improbably titled "Quack" (2018) and produced in an edition of 14.
If you plow a field with quackgrass, you will inadvertently cut up pieces of rhizomes which will then sprout, giving rise to more quack grass, and so on.
Mr Asahara, a former seller of quack medicines, ordered his followers to subsist on boiled vegetables while he gorged on prawn tempura and drove a white Rolls-Royce.
Sarah Silverman is tremendous fun as Gladys, manager of Billie and her fellow female players, whereas Fred Armisen sticks out like a sore thumb as Bobby's quack doctor.
Wrong move; Le Brun is a quack who considers smallpox like roses and waxes on pain and beauty, before administering an elixir that does more harm than good.
And there appears to be no shortage of quack-ish health professionals who will sign off on questionable medical exemptions for people who don't have legitimate health concerns.
Photo: Mark Stehle (AP Photo)After spending much of the 20th century relegated to the dustbin of quack medicine, leeches are now enjoying a renaissance in the doctor's office.
He refused to obey an injunction against selling "orgone shooters"—quack devices that supposedly dilute orgone energy, the over-saturation of which believers blame for a host of ailments.
Nancy Pelosi that falsely describes her as drunk; altered copies of the Christchurch shooting video, quack science, and misleading political ads, among other questionable videos found on the site.
In the case of Unnao, reported across local media, a district hospital official had already ordered an investigation into the quack in question, months before the HIV cases were found.
That the crook in question was a quack doctor who abused young women under the pretext of treating them for hysteria might seem unrealistically on theme — but it's completely true.
There was little sense of transformation as he turned from a shy, sober boy to the suitor emboldened by the love potion (actually cheap wine) peddled by the traveling quack Dulcamara.
"Madhouse," by Andrew Scull, tells the fascinating and infuriating story of Dr. Henry Cotton, an early-20th-century quack who believed that he could cure mental illness by removing people's organs.
In a speech on Monday, the secretary of health and human services dismissed those solutions, which Mr. Trump backed away from when he announced his plan on Friday, as quack remedies.
Once Dr. Kelley — working with a group of like-minded physicians — began treating patients, he ran afoul of the American Cancer Society (who claimed he was a quack) and various professional societies.
Of course, after pretending to quack a few times in a single sitting, we lose patience and eventually just start popping the Pringles straight in our mouths until the tube is empty.
It did not abuse the patient's body, and if it was a quack treatment it was not much worse, and was arguably more humane, than a lot of what was being practiced.
A European doctor offered Lexington a convincingly cynical explanation: because many clients are not very ill and "homeopathic" sugar pills are cheap to make, quack cures offer low risks and high profits.
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.
Guests are guided down a steep, narrow corridor lined with lo-fi video art of zombified yogis, quack beauty products and double-take pharmaceutical posters — all awash in pink and purple hues.
She said the duck's distinctive quack (she uses it as her ring tone), its droll waddle and the image of fuzzy ducklings trailing a protective mother all elicit affection from city people.
But you'd have to go back more than a year since Senate Republicans broke with Trump (the Russia sanctions), so don't hold your breath for the lame duck to do more than quack.
On the table in front of him we see a monkey, which Dutch viewers in the 17th century would have understood as a symbol: The quack is "making a monkey" of his audience.
Literary journalists, like Vanity Fair legend Dominick Dunne, published books as well, but there were also quack crime books like Donald Freed's Killing Time, written by people who were neither journalists nor trial participants.
Aaron Schwartz -- whose first acting role was playing Dave Karp in "The Mighty Ducks" way back in 1992 -- is stoked the Quack Attack is coming back, and says he wants a piece of the action.
As health minister, she extended health services to black South Africans but also promoted a quack "cure" for AIDS based on a toxic industrial solvent, and purged South Africa's drug-safety authority when it objected.
Tester's allegations painted a picture of Jackson as some sort of drunken, pill-pushing quack, handing out drugs willy-nilly (Tester claimed on national television Jackson was called "The Candyman") and generally conducting himself dishonorably.
The windows look out at Casco Bay: gulls swarming above the fishing piers, slow-moving oil tankers, and amphibious duck tours that quack as they ease into the water and transform from bus to boat.
On finding out that I was a nak muay, the portly, spectacled quack got up from behind his post-modern IKEA desk at the surgery and showed me his wobbly version of the sok glap.
Like Trump, she also has a history of encouraging charlatans who traffic in quack ideas, as she has given a platform to dubious figures like Dr. Oz, a purveyor of pseudoscience, and vaccine denier Jenny McCarthy.
This approach is self-confirming: the more that sufferers from a debilitating illness are excluded from mainstream medicine, the more they'll be forced to consider quack treatments and the less credible they may appear to be.
He develops unshakable feelings of shame and self-loathing, until he ultimately discovers that he's not a duck at all, but a fucking incredible swan, so suck on that, you flat-billed, corkscrew dicked, quack-happy assholes.
His company, Hivory Towers, wants to convert all the world's literature into profit by way of a knowledge vacuuming machine concocted by Dr. Quack, a talking duck who's head is encased in a jar of water, Futurama-style.
His personal physician, a quack who made it big by jabbing famous people in the butt so smoothly they didn't feel it, started sneaking some of it (along with morphine) into Hitler's daily "vitamin" injections during the war.
Then there's the fact that Nixon, whatever you think of him, was a complex personality, Shakespearean in his paranoia and self-delusion, while Brinkley, on the evidence of Nuts, was just a quack, though an uncommonly successful one.
That's because, in one of the show's key plot developments, Thomas Barrow, the sporadically evil underbutler, had undergone a quack regimen to cure himself of homosexuality and had developed a nasty abscess on his ... There was the rub.
Online services enable people to access guidance whenever and wherever they need it, and as with so many things, the internet's cloak of anonymity provides a blissful respite from concerns about being labeled a sucker, weirdo, or quack.
Joseph Smith was seeing angels; William Avery Rockefeller (father of the founders of Standard Oil) was hawking quack nostrums; and the Fox sisters, a trio of teenagers living in Hydesville, were receiving messages from a dead tin peddler.
In late October, BuzzFeed News reported on how these groups flourished, even after the platform cracked down on other forms of medical misinformation like anti-vaccine pages and groups, or quack treatments like drinking bleach to "cure" autism.
Mr. Merkel's broader efforts to resuscitate the doctor's reputation against those "who glibly deride him as a quack" is at least partly successful, and his assertion that "many of his sounder concepts of wellness remain sage prescriptions" seems indisputable.
Revered by some as a saint and dismissed by others as a quack, Dr. Sarno maintained that most nontraumatic instances of chronic pain — including back pain, gastrointestinal disorders, headaches and fibromyalgia — are physical manifestations of deep-seated psychological anxieties.
Some of the World Health Organization's recent Twitter posts may seem like obvious statements, but amid rapidly spreading misinformation about the new coronavirus, thousands if not millions of people are being exposed to false health warnings and quack treatment methods.
" A writer for the Cologne-based Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger weighed in: "My dear Professor Helmut Quack, we Cologners do not care that you have found out after 15 years of researching that there's no difference in taste between Kölsch and Alt.
Oneal Ron Morris, the infamous South Florida quack known alternately as "the Fix-a-Flat doctor" and "the Duchess," was sentenced to a decade in prison on Monday for a butt-injection gone horribly wrong, as the Washington Post reports.
The other principal thread concerns a musician, Babak (Arash Marandi), who, after a nightclub tryst with Donya (Negar Mona Alizadeh), has a week to pay for an unsanitary quack doctor with a hacking cough to restore the appearance of her virginity.
The health care industry was largely unregulated in the late 19th century; "buyer beware" applied to quack cures as much as to medical advice, and at first there was nothing the government could do to prevent doctors from overprescribing morphine.
My friend Damon began berating me with video clips, which at first annoyed me: But then I realized the true magic of the otamatone, and it's quack-like song: Now, I am convinced of the Otamatone's goodness, and have become a connoisseur.
No one could have foreseen MLB and Manfred getting into bed with a quack doctor and interfering with a federal investigation to justify suspending Alex Rodriguez, and no one thought the NFL would fight to the death with Tom Brady over deflated footballs.
Ever anxious to keep his patient in top form, first for the Nazis' huge open-air rallies and later for vital meetings with top generals or world leaders, Morell plied Hitler not only with sundry quack remedies but also with near-daily injections.
Grammy-nominated rapper Nipsey Hussle's death has set off a firestorm of baseless conspiracy theories online, and one hoax that quickly went viral involves tweets and YouTube videos linking his death to a quack celebrity doctor — despite there being no evidence that is true.
"Unless these quack doctors, barbers and dentists are not checked, the number of incidents of H.I.V. infection will continue going up," said Dr. Imran Akbar Arbani, a local doctor, who had tipped off Mr. Shaikh about the outbreak as he also alerted government authorities.
In the meantime, though, the FDA has issued warnings against products containing kratom and continues to confiscate foreign shipments of it from entering the U.S. Gottlieb, a Trump appointee who took the reins at the FDA last May, has been proactive in targeting quack companies.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - When black Brazilian filmmaker Anderson Quack and rapper Nega Gizza launched their bids to run for office in October's elections, the absence of a murdered colleague cast a long shadow over the event in an impoverished district of Rio de Janeiro.
Some halfway houses and work programs reject people on methadone or other medication-assisted treatments, saying they aren't "recovered"; people struggling with addiction can be vulnerable to quack "cures" or exorbitant "detox" rehab stays, as can members of their families (who often foot the bills).
Although Purdue makes a point of asserting that its income-share agreement is "not a loan or other debt instrument," the practical effect is to remove the ceiling on colleges' ability to be paid by financial products that walk, talk and quack like students loans.
These are the same piece blindly embrace bogus climate statistics, communism, gun-control lies, new age medicine, quack diets and any postmodern trick about race or gender, the same people who demand skepticism would applaud a six-year-old man self-identifying as a hairless cat.
IN A. DICKSON WRIGHT'S "Quacks Through the Ages", a study published in 33, the "outstanding quack of all times" was James Graham, an 18th-century Scottish doctor who conceived mystical cures for all sorts of ailments using fiery electric lamps, magnets and perfumes of the Orient.
Dr. Mehmet Oz.Photo: APLo and behold, President Donald Trump has appointed none other than widely ridiculed quack Dr. Mehmet Oz—yes, the Dr. Oz so infamous for his dubious TV health advice that the British Medical Journal published a thorough trashing of him—to serve as a health adviser.
We think of the criminal era as a time when getting an abortion meant a furtive trip into the back alley, where, as likely as not, an unskilled person — maybe a drugstore owner or beautician or medical quack — would sexually assault, maim, or even negligently kill a desperate woman.
It's a technique "long exploited by faith healers and self-help gurus," common in "get-rich-quick and quack medicine books desperate to sell readers on the Truth of their claims," Alan Levinovitz, an associate professor of religious studies at James Madison University, wrote in the Washington Post.
There were some scenes that were a little too neatly tied up, particularly one where Bow's mother-in-law Ruby apologizes for her vast misconceptions about PPD (which included comments like, "I didn't go to some quack doctor because I was mentally ill with some made up disease").
For the guy sitting next to me, a former college football player who talked like Hemingway and grew up treeing mountain lions with his forest ranger dad, it meant giving up the opioids he'd become dependent on after his spine had been messed up by an unlicensed quack.
Now, with President TrumpDonald John TrumpO'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Objections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated MORE's call to eliminate the filibuster entirely, Congress has acquired a quack doctor to assist in the self-mutilation.
Dr. Tan was arrested for writing online late last year that a popular Chinese tonic liquor appeared to be quack medicine, and a potential "poison" for many retirees who drink it every day, lured by swarms of ads on daytime television and its claims to be favored by emperors centuries ago.
"Let's have a round of applause for our companion Marielle, who was one of our greatest supporters in this process," Quack, who is running for Congress, told a cheering crowd of nearly 200 people assembled late Tuesday in a courtyard in the hardscrabble neighborhood Madureira, on the outskirts of Rio.
Then also, Zhdanov, now one of the most powerful members of the Politburo, earned Stalin's ire when his son, Yuri, head of the science section of the Central Committee, conducted a closed seminar to discuss the work of the quack agronomist T. D. Lysenko, a Rasputin-like figure in Stalin's government.
The most complete but still unsourced stuff I could find ran parallel to what my friend had told me, the main difference being that it wasn't the Memphis Mafia that kept the King snoozin' and losin' in the 703s, but instead a Las Vegas quack who had put Presley in a medically induced coma.
In the first season, Jessica mentions that she had already gone to therapy (though she calls her doctor a "quack," refers to therapy as "bullshit," and refuses to go back), and she suffers from flashbacks (in which she relives snippets of her life while she was under mind-control), which is one of the main symptoms of PTSD.
Instead, she watches Harrison Ford and Whoopi Goldberg movies on her VCR all while chewing a wide and assorted variety of pills — ranging from Benadryl to over-the-counter cold medicine to prescribed controlled substances to a few fictional drugs that her quack of a psychiatrist assures will put her "down for the count" — and doesn't overly concern herself with… anything.
Everywhere you turn there seems to be some kind of quack or confidence man catering to an eager audience: Fox News hosts like Sean Hannity have moved from pushing ill-informed opinion to flat-out conspiracy mongering; pickup artists sell "tried and true" methods for isolated young men to seduce women; and sophists pass off stale pedantries as dark and radical thought, selling millions of books in the process.
Instead, after a falsetto verse or two, the band starts to improvise, the horns start aggressively honking over the beat, the drums start relentlessly thwacking down, the keyboards start spraying out ribbons of glitzy confetti, and Prince proceeds to holler, shriek, speak in tongues, improvise a whole array of inarticulate animal cries and repeat the Winkie chant from The Wizard of Oz. The heavy, sticky, hyperactive kick of the second horn solo could quack through steel; the warbly wail of the third sounds a piercing alarm call.
Dave Anderson (1929–2018), Pulitzer Prize-winning sportswriter Hamiet Bluiett (21942–22018), baritone saxophonist who co-founded "The World Saxophone Quartet" and combined avant-garde with traditional jazz Montserrat Caballé (211–21947), Spanish operatic soprano Warrington Colescott (22018–21960), printmaker and educator known for his biting social and political commentary Ray Galton (19423–21942), British sitcom writer Marco Gastini (22018–19440), painter known for his use of Plexiglas rather than canvas Sydney Goldstein (1944–2018), founder of City Arts & Lectures who orchestrated cultural programming and interviews William Helfand (1926–2018), collector of "quack" medicine memorabilia, pharmacist, and author Richard Kaplan (1925–2018), Oscar Award-winning documentarian Vladimir Radunsky (20183–2018), children's book author Roger Robinson (1940–2018), Tony Award-winning Broadway actor Pierre Théberge (1942–2018), head of the Canadian National Gallery for 11 years Will Vinton (1947–2018), claymation animator Audrey Wells (1960–2018), film director, producer, and screenwriter of the recent film The Hate U Give Scott Wilson (1942–2018), actor in The Walking Dead David Wise (1930), journalist who exposed the CIA

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