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Webster 1913 Edition
Quackery
Quack′er-y
,Noun.
pl.
Quackeries
. The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism.
Carlyle.
Webster 1828 Edition
Quackery
QUACK'ERY
,Noun.
Definition 2024
quackery
quackery
English
Noun
quackery (countable and uncountable, plural quackeries)
- (law, medicine, uncountable) The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.
- (countable) An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine.
Quotations
- 1772: Edmund Burke, ed, The Annual Register
- His intentions were admirable, and his quackery had in view the public good; [...]
Related terms
Translations
the practice of fraudulent medicine
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