Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The boastful pretensions or knavish practice of a quack, particularly in medicine; empiricism; charlatanry; humbug.
Wiktionary
- n. law, medicine, uncountable The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.
- n. countable An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the dishonesty of a charlatan
- n. medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings
Examples
“There are definitely problems in the medical system but this quackery is not the answer, it only creates more problems.”
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“Their definition of quackery is the application of treatments that have not been scientifically proven to have any effects, that are practiced by physicians as well as specialists without a MD and they organise congresses from time to time where they say things like this.”
“What some call quackery was just the right prescription for Doletzky, who says he's suspicious of traditional treatment and the U.S. health care system.”
“We are still, therefore, exposed to the humiliation of hearing that spiritualistic quackery is freely practised in England.”
“As for the low head hydro, Clive, well the word quackery springs to mind.”
“They might not work -- one Harvard doc calls them "quackery" -- because alcohol, not polyphenols, is probably the active ingredient for a healthy heart.”
“The world of “complimentary and alternative medicine” otherwise known as quackery is even worse: the waste is 100%.”
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“What some have called quackery was just the right prescription for Doletzky, who says he's suspicious of traditional treatments and the U.S. health care system.”
“I would not be the one to dispute, that perhaps in 1700 or 1800, or early 1900 the field was, what we would define as quackery and horrid treatments today.”
Doctor Resigns From Hospital Because She Won’t Do Unneeded C-Sections
“One is called quackery while the other is view as a legitimate religion.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘quackery’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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funny & derogatory
WARNING: VERY EXPLICIT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
funny derogatory names, quotes, phrases.
( open list, randomness, ad hom, ad hominem )
also see:
buttfucking quitter, dirty sanchez, donkey punch, falcon punch, assbadger, unicorn turd, assclown, fudgenut, quackery, friggin homo, buttmuncher, jackwagon and 292 more... -
thekatespanos's list
pomposity, gaggle, scintilla, lemming, bilk, vanquish, conflate, plenary, verisimilitude, perspicacious, rattletrap, obdurate and 325 more...
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Gil Blas
Interesting words and usages from Smollett's 1749 translation of Lesage's L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
reck, durance, rhodomontade, hangdog, trap, lustre, pin, boggle, dandle, birthday suit, colic, gripes and 238 more...
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Noesis
Mind or Mind Altering
example: psychotomimetic
( _mark, personal list, randomness )
related:
noetic, entheogen, psychonautics, infinite, bewilderment, mystification, stupefication, enhanced, altered, perception, simulation, network and 212 more... -
Crime
feaguing, cooping, simony, scrumping, chicanery, quackery, rustle, fleecing
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oddball
wackadoodlery.
( personal list )
related (from me):
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopoeias--1
bric-a-brac, succotash, humbucker, skedaddle, scallywag, sassafras, gadzooks, humdinger, hoity-toity, wishy-washy, namby-pamby, ding dong and 456 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Rocketeer's Words
defenestrate, shutterbug, antique, periscope, dogma, peculiar, eccentric, banana, apple, pear, cherry, photograph and 189 more...
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Q and U.
quiddity, quincunx, quorum, quibble, querelous, query, quantum, queue, quaalude, question, quarry, quagmire and 34 more...
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Humbug and bafflegab
oil, rot, gas, gup, pop, jive, bull, jazz, guff, pish, tosh, flam and 83 more...
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begins with "qu"
"Qu..." seems to produce some extraordinarily euphonious words.
quiescent, quantifiable, quadrilateral, quackery, quaff, quadrennial, quadruplicate, quaking aspen, qualmish, quandaries, quark, quartziferous and 31 more...
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Charlatania
Words and phrases from Pope Brock's entirely awesome book, "Charlatan".
flimflam, quackery, goat glands, snake oil, huckster, mumbo-jumbo, gullibility, rheostatic dynamizer, foot-powered brea..., mountebank, abba-dabba juice, dr. raphael's cor... and 76 more...
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Whimsical Word Waggery
delightfully youthful and energetically inspired words of joy and mirth and play! In order to post on this list, you must know deep down in your soul that you still have un irresisitible affinity f...
madeupical, funfortunate, splendiferous, fantabulous, pollyannary, humbuggery, hullabaloo, flibbertigibbet, pitter-patter, windbaggery, cockamamie, diddly-squat and 45 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for quackery.
yarb That gentle, civilized system of evacuation which prevailed under my auspices is subverted by the reign of anarchy and emetics, of quackery and poison.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 10 ch. 1 Oct 8, 2008