Quackery
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈkwæk(ə)ri/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Quackery is a noun meaning (countable) An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine.
Meaning
(countable) An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine.
More Meanings
- (law, medicine, uncountable) The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.
Example Sentences
[…] the manifold and serpentine wiles and evasions, shufflings and fencings, deceits and dissimulations, he had practised —the bunkums and the quackeries, […]
When no certain cure exists, quack remedies tend to proliferate and the history of quackery and secret cures is full of extraordinary forms of treatment for the various arthritic disorders.
Word Forms
- quackeries
Synonyms for quackery
Depending on context, synonyms include empiricism, charlatanism.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include charlatanism, charlatanry, charlatanerie, chicanery, trickery, patchery.
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