noun
1. : a professional worker of magic in a primitive society occupying a tribal position similar to that of a shaman or medicine man who by the use of spells, charms, herbal remedies, and incantations seeks to cure illness, detect witches, and counteract malevolent magical influences — called also witchman
2. : one employing techniques or mumbo jumbo like those of a witch doctor
a clairvoyant or witch doctor of some kind — Osbert Sitwell
political witch doctors
witch doctors of modern business … exorcising the demon of pessimism — C.W.Ferguson