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noun, plural quack·er·ies.the practice or methods of a quack. an instance of this. Origin of quackeryFirst recorded in 1700–10; quack2 + -ery Words nearby quackeryqty., qu., qua, Quaalude, quack, quackery, quack grass, quacksalver, Quaco, quad, quad-band Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for quackeryMark Hyman, MD, best-selling author, and current chair of the Institute of Functional Medicine, sees it as anything but quackery. Clinton Doc: This Is How We’ll Fix Health Care|Daniela Drake|June 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST For decades, “leaky gut syndrome” was passed off as quackery. New Research Shows Poorly Understood “Leaky Gut Syndrome” Is Real, May Be the Cause of Several Diseases|Daniela Drake|March 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST Yet no bishop, no theologian, durst oppose their quackery and their fraud. History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century (Volume 1)|J. H. Merle D'Aubign There is no fun going on now-a-days—no quackery, no mountebankery, no asses, colonial or otherwise. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXVIII. February, 1843. Vol. LIII.|Various
Vegetation has been exhausted, and the bowels of the earth ransacked, to supply trash for this quackery. The Seven Curses of London|James Greenwood The meanest and most contemptible kind of cheating is quackery. Practical Ethics|William DeWitt Hyde In this world we are so jealous of any discovery being made, that innovation is immediately stigmatised as quackery. Olla Podrida|Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)
British Dictionary definitions for quackery
noun plural -eriesthe activities or methods of a quack Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to quackerydeceitfulness, deception, trickery, dishonesty, misrepresentation, pretense, imposture |