as in fraud
one who makes false claims of identity or expertise
don't bother to see that guy, as I've heard he's a quack with no actual training
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Recent Examples of quack
To its credit, the IPCC has elevated the debate and increased the credibility of climate science, minimizing the impact of climate quacks.
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Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
In the 1920s, a quack named John Brinkley became a household name by implanting goat testicles into the bodies of patients complaining of infertility and impotence.
—David Klepper, Fortune Well, 31 Jan. 2024
Michael Hiltzik: Meet the most dangerous quack in America.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
But in Florida, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ quack surgeon general, is doing precisely that.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
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In a new interview with Axios at the Aspen Security Forum, Ramaswamy said while the new department would look for waste and fraud within Social Security and Medicare, large widespread cuts are unlikely to be enacted.Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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Ramaswamy said Wednesday that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will look for waste and fraud in those programs, including people receiving payments who shouldn't be.Erin Doherty, Axios, 4 Dec. 2024
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Today’s dupe culture doesn’t help, as digital denizens proudly flash their fakes on social media.Adriana Lee, WWD, 26 Nov. 2024
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On the ensuing snap, the Cardinals changed their play and ran a play fake to get Murray on the perimeter.Michael-Shawn Dugar, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
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These are the pillows, blankets, shams, duvet covers, and more that make their nights better.Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2024
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The matching shams create a cohesiveness that will really pull together your bedroom in an elevated way.Megan Schaltegger, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Sep. 2024
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In Saturday's game at Arizona (1:30 p.m., FOX) ASU has the chance to do something it's done only once before this century: go undefeated in November, the month in which good teams separate themselves from early-season pretenders.Matthew Self, The Arizona Republic, 26 Nov. 2024
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Other pretender brands like Stellantis’s DS, and Hyundai’s Genesis look to be fighting a losing battle.Neil Winton, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
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But in Wicked, he's elevated to an even more sinister place — not merely a charlatan, but a fraud who has seized power and wants to use the magic of others to create a totalitarian world that answers to his every whim.Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2024
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One exception is Cotton Marcus, the charlatan at the center of The Last Exorcism.A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 30 July 2024
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Gould observed that Jerry Falwell had taken up the mountebank’s mission of William Jennings Bryan.Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
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Now, this pallid Color Purple epitomizes the artistic dearth of an era when a cultural mountebank like Winfrey uses race and feminist guile to cheat us of America’s most creative achievements.Armond White, National Review, 3 Jan. 2024
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But don’t be fooled — what might seem like a clandestine cannabis crop is often just a harmless impostor.Brandi D. Addison, Austin American-Statesman, 25 June 2024
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While that may have been the case, the country’s oligarchs have unwittingly turned this volatile impostor into a folk hero whose power may not diminish even outside the chancellor’s sphere of influence.Scott Tobias, Vulture, 17 Mar. 2024
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“Quack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quack. Accessed 11 Dec. 2024.
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