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View synonyms for quackery

quackery

[ kwak-uh-ree ]

noun

, plural quack·er·ies.
  1. the practice or methods of a quack.
  2. an instance of this.


quackery

/ ˈkwækərɪ /

noun

  1. the activities or methods of a quack


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Word History and Origins

Origin of quackery1

First recorded in 1700–10; quack 2 + -ery

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Example Sentences

Mark Hyman, MD, best-selling author, and current chair of the Institute of Functional Medicine, sees it as anything but quackery.

For decades, “leaky gut syndrome” was passed off as quackery.

The comic poets ridiculed pretension, arrogance, quackery, and lies.

It is written in popular style for the masses and is a sharp and effective weapon for the campaign against quackery.

You forget also, that in France the age of quackery is over.

With such notions abroad, quackery must have been rife, and serious medical practitioners had many difficulties to contend with.

Honesty itself was never more free from quackery or deception than was this embodied and walking Vice.

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