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quackeries

quackeries is the plural of quackery.

Meaning of quackery

Noun

quackery (countable and uncountable, plural quackeries)

  1. (uncountable) The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.
    • 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.1976 March 27, F. Dudley Hart, “History of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, number 6012, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 763
    Synonyms:
    empiricism
  2. (countable) An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine.
    • […] the manifold and serpentine wiles and evasions, shufflings and fencings, deceits and dissimulations, he had practised —the bunkums and the quackeries, […]1925, Eden Phillpotts, Circé's Island: And The Girl & the Faun, page 122

Questions about quackeries

What is quackeries the plural of?
Quackeries is the plural of quackery.

Words near quackeries in the dictionary

  1. Quackenbos
  2. Quackenboses
  3. Quackenbush
  4. Quackenbushes
  5. quacker
  6. quackeries
  7. quackers
  8. quackery
  9. quackest
  10. quacketh
  11. quackgrass

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