quackery
/ˈkwækəɹi/
quackery noun: the practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.
Noun
quackery (countable and uncountable, plural quackeries)
- 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
- 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
quackery meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada
quackery in Tamil
- மோசடி மருந்து விற்பனை, பயிலா மருத்தவர் மருத்துவம்
quackery in Urdu
- عیاری, دغابازی, دھوکا دہی, ڈینگ, شیخی خوری
quackery in Kannada
- ಕಪಟ ಪಾಂಡಿತ್ಯ, ಕಪಟವೈದ್ಯ ಚಿಕಿತ್ಸೆ
Synonyms of quackery
Forms of quackery
| plural | quackeries |
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Origin of quackery
From quack + -ery.
Words formed from quackery
Questions about quackery
- What does quackery mean?
- Quackery means the practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.
- What is quackery in Tamil?
- Quackery in Tamil is மோசடி மருந்து விற்பனை, பயிலா மருத்தவர் மருத்துவம். See Quackery meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is quackery?
- Quackery is a noun.
- How do you pronounce quackery?
- Quackery is pronounced /ˈkwækəɹi/ (US).
- What is the plural of quackery?
- The plural of quackery is quackeries.
Words near quackery in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: quackery (page history and authors); quackery (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quackery (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quackery (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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