quacksalver
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To Johnson, a flatterer was a "claw-back"; a bad doctor, a "quacksalver."
From Time Magazine Archive
I have done ill to unbosom myself so far to this poisonous quacksalver.
From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Sir Walter Scott
"Pshaw! he is a quacksalver, and mountebank, and beggar."
From Peveril of the Peak by Sir Walter Scott
"In other words," said Tressilian, "you were Jack Pudding to a quacksalver."
From Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott
The answers were given with a solemn self-complacency, not unmixed with that shrewdness which was an essential attribute to the success of the ancient quacksalver.
From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy
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