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Synonyms for quackery
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kwak-uh-ree |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkwæk ə ri |
Définition of quackery
Origin :- 1690s, from quack (n.) + -ery.
- noun charlatanism
- It may smell of quackery, but it is exceedingly useful to the patient.
- Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro
- Men were fools and liars, and impostors and quackery reigned supreme.
- Extract from : « Recollections » by David Christie Murray
- The meanest and most contemptible kind of cheating is quackery.
- Extract from : « Practical Ethics » by William DeWitt Hyde
- There is no quackery whatever in mathematics; no % equal to anything.
- Extract from : « A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) » by Augustus De Morgan
- Did you not see our quack friend apply to himself his own quackery?
- Extract from : « The Confidence-Man » by Herman Melville
- You forget also, that in France the age of quackery is over.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 » by Various
- Whatever the field of quackery may be, the dupe must ever be the same.
- Extract from : « A Book about Doctors » by John Cordy Jeaffreson
- Clearly this piece of quackery succeeded, because the quack had "fund a fule."
- Extract from : « A Book about Doctors » by John Cordy Jeaffreson
- By dint of impudence and quackery, I sometimes passed for a savant.
- Extract from : « The Knickerbocker, Vol. 22, No. 4, October 1843 » by Various
- Communistic quackery has masqueraded as sociological wisdom.
- Extract from : « Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, October 1899 » by Various
Antonyms for quackery
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