How To Use Snake oil In A Sentence
-
It would be unfair to accuse them of selling snake oil.
Times, Sunday Times
-
What it really is is the peddling of cultural snake oil.
Times, Sunday Times
-
What it really is is the peddling of cultural snake oil.
Times, Sunday Times
-
The list actually sounds a lot more like a 6th Form English project than a beard-stroking look at the future, but, in fairness, who would have thought Google Search Engineer or Social Networking Consultant/Snake Oil Salesman would be titles 20 years ago?
RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds
-
What it really is is the peddling of cultural snake oil.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Perhaps, when the shouting from snake oil salesmen subsides, our leaders will find a way to forge a bipartisan solution.
-
In the late sixteenth century, English borrowed this word, now spelled mountebank, to refer to those roaming charlatans who would step onto a box or bench to attract the attention of potential buyers of such dubious offerings as “snake oil” medicine.1
The English Is Coming!
-
It would be unfair to accuse them of selling snake oil.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Yeah bu snake oil salemans Ford was begging Obama to put Hillary on the tkt "for the DLC's, err, the party's sake
Wolfson: There Have Been "No Discussions" Of Ending The Race
-
In any case, some of the financial snake oil peddled at the height of the housing bubble was bad for saving.
-
Glenn is more like the snake oil salesman who asks for a pretty young volunteer, only to maim them for life with his product.
Think Progress » The Right-Wing Backlash Against Glenn Beck: Stop Being A ‘Clown’ Who’s Trying To Divide Conservatives
-
It would be unfair to accuse them of selling snake oil.
Times, Sunday Times
-
They look at the data, sift the evidence, swig the snake oil and go public with what they think will happen.
Times, Sunday Times
-
The article basically presented alternative remedies as snake oil and went on to quote an allopath who states that the ‘people who sell this stuff to desperately ill people…are criminals.’
-
It would be unfair to accuse them of selling snake oil.
Times, Sunday Times
-
For all his odd and scary views, Buchanan has played the fear card like a snake oil salesman hawking eternal life.
-
There's even a book called Snake Oil Science, written by a biostatistician and senior Research Methodologist at the University of Maryland, that tells us why alternative and complementary medicine lies somewhere between bunko and hokum.
Lee Schneider: Snake Oil Medicine
-
Blended Learning - is only snake oil rebottled in to different containers.
Archive 2005-11-01
-
The monthly gabfests organized by our local Skeptics Club often see rational-minded card-carrying members lay waste to the lame claims of mystics, seers and other snake oil salesmen.
-
These days, instead of snake oil salesmen hawking their wares from the back of a wagon, we have late-night cable television infomercials and Web-based promotions.
-
They look at the data, sift the evidence, swig the snake oil and go public with what they think will happen.
Times, Sunday Times
-
In any case, some of the financial snake oil peddled at the height of the housing bubble was bad for saving.
-
It would be unfair to accuse them of selling snake oil.
Times, Sunday Times
-
It helps if you can whip the populace into a panic like some snake oil salesman, then sell them the quack cure.
-
It would be unfair to accuse them of selling snake oil.
Times, Sunday Times
-
“What the Kabbalah Centre is, is equal parts of nonmystical and traditional Jewish wisdom and one part snake oil and hokum,” said Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein, chairman of Jewish law and ethics at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and an Orthodox rabbi who has taught classes in cabala.
A Jewish Madonna? Is That a Mystery?
-
All of these things act to remove any type of protective coating, whether it's a high quality protectant or an inexpensive snake oil.
-
Palin blames ‘Gore-gate’ for ‘this snake oil science stuff.’
Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 12, 2010
