Crossword-Solution: QUACKS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Bad doctors | 1 answer |
| Certain potion peddlers | 1 answer |
| Ones who treat people poorly? | 1 answer |
| Some miracle drug pushers | 1 answer |
| They need malpractice insurance | 1 answer |
| They treat people badly | 1 answer |
| Duck calls | 2 answers |
| They're not to be believed | 5 answers |
| Pretenders | 6 answers |
| Charlatans | 7 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with QUACKS (5)
Immediately afterwards, he collapsed with nervous prostration; his stomach “got out of whack,” and he all but died in a Sacramento boarding-house, obstinately refusing to have anything to do with doctors, whom he vituperated as a rabble of quacks, dosing himself with a patent medicine and stuffing himself almost to bursting with liver pills and dried prunes.
The task of the true publicist, in the age in which we live, is to close the mouths of quacks and charlatans, and to teach the public to demand demonstrations, instead of being contented with symbols and programmes.
Abundance of quacks too died, who had the folly to trust to their own medicines, which they must needs be conscious to themselves were good for nothing, and who rather ought, like other sorts of thieves, to have run away, sensible of their guilt, from the justice that they could not but expect should punish them as they knew they had deserved.
This is an incantation," replied the Lonesome Duck, but now it began making a succession of soft noises that sounded like quacks and seemed to mean nothing at all.
The few are philosophers besotted with admiration for the sound of their own lecturing voices, visionaries who waste their lives on fantastic impossibilities, or quacks whose ambition soars no higher than our corns.
Quotes with QUACKS (3)
It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false. To admit that the false has any standing in court, that it ought to be handled gently because millions of morons cherish it and thousands of quacks make their livings propagating it — to admit this, as the more fatuous of the reconcilers of science and religion inevitably do,…
— But here is a question that is troubling me: if there is no God, then, one may ask, who governs human life and, in general, the whole order of things on earth? — Man governs it himself, — Homeless angrily hastened to reply to this admittedly none-too-clear question. — Pardon me, — the stranger responded gently, — but in order to govern, one needs, after all, to have a precise plan for a certain, at least somewhat decent, length of time. Allow me to ask you, then, how can ma…
Gundar seemed to come to a decision. "Well, as my old mam used to say, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it's probably a duck." "Very wise," Halt said. "And what exactly do your mother's words of wisdom have to do with this situation?" Gundar shrugged. "It looks like a channel. It's the right place for a channel. If I were digging one, this is where I'd dig a channel. So. . ." "So it's probably the channel?" Selethen said. Gundar grinned at…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1973–2021).