sawbones

Example Sentences

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“Put the sawbones like me out of business.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2012

Robert Morley and Alastair Sim bear small resemblance to the characters Shaw had in mind, but in company with John Robinson and Felix Aylmer they make a ludicrously Aristophanic chorus of sawbones.

From Time Magazine Archive

Small wonder that they have been dubbed "sawbones," or that they have always hated the unpleasant word.

From Time Magazine Archive

In New Winton's collection of characters the town sawbones, Dr. Bull, stands out like a large masculine thumb.

From Time Magazine Archive

Better be a mediocre sawbones than a mediocre paper-stainer.

From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by O'Shea, John Augustus