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单词 quackery
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quackery

noun

quack·​ery ˈkwa-k(ə-)rē How to pronounce quackery (audio)
: the practices or pretensions of a quack

Example Sentences

His cure was nothing but quackery.
Recent Examples on the Web That is a perfect distillation of populism and quackery. Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 July 2022 Jay will not seek any help and feels a counselor or psychologist is a bunch of quackery. Annie Lane, oregonlive, 2 June 2022 But his practice is neither a superhuman capability nor New Age quackery. Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2022 Anchorage was no more immune from medical quackery than any other town in Alaska or the rest of the country. David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Nov. 2021 The new policy extends the ban on COVID-19 misinformation to the larger category of anti-vaccine quackery. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2021 And Finchem's quackery goes well beyond the Big Lie and its Arizona tendrils. Chris Cillizza, CNN, 14 Sep. 2021 Saracoglu has a reputation for medical quackery, and his hope to breathe new life into dead material seems to verge on Dr. Frankenstein-style pseudoscience. Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2021 But such quackery also can be deadly dangerous, such as when many protesters, claiming divine inspiration, joined in storming the Capitol on Jan. 6. Arkansas Online, 27 July 2021 See More

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1711, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

quackery

noun

quack·​ery ˈkwak-(ə-)rē How to pronounce quackery (audio)
plural quackeries
: the practices or pretensions of a quack

quackery

noun

as in fakery

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • fakery
  • humbuggery
  • deception
  • imposture
  • hypocrisy
  • dishonesty
  • deceit
  • duplicity
  • insincerity
  • crookery
  • dissimulation
  • deceptiveness
  • crookedness
  • dupery
  • treachery
  • guile
  • deceitfulness
  • double-dealing
  • cunning
  • underhandedness
  • chicanery
  • trickery
  • deviousness
  • dirty pool
  • shrewdness
  • subterfuge
  • sneakiness
  • dirty tricks
  • craftiness
  • secrecy
  • guilefulness
  • slipperiness
  • artfulness
  • shiftiness
  • stealth
  • skulduggery
  • slyness
  • slickness
  • oiliness
  • cunning
  • shadiness
  • jugglery
  • cageyness
  • skullduggery
  • wiliness
  • gamesmanship
  • scheming
  • legerdemain
  • caginess
  • plotting
  • jiggery-pokery
  • artifice
  • chicane
  • sharpness
  • foxiness
  • wile
  • design
  • hanky-panky

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • sincerity
  • artlessness
  • ingenuousness
  • guilelessness
  • forthrightness
  • openness
  • candor
  • directness
  • candidness
  • plainness
  • plainspokenness
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