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
Example sentences :
  • 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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