quackery
noun
the practice or methods of a quack.
quackeries
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pluralof quackery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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We live in a land of abounding quackeries and if we do not learn how to laugh, we succumb to the melancholy disease which afflicts the race of viewers-with-alarm.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2024
Beautiful, energetic and not entirely scrupulous, Victoria and her younger sister Tennessee practiced many of the popular quackeries of the day: seances, psychic remedies, a bottled "elixir of life."
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile the camera, true to the best British cinema traditions, is out to explore the quirks and quackeries of local society.
From Time Magazine Archive
The 860 farm families surveyed last year paid out an average of $104.94 each for doctors, nurses, hospital care, medicines, quackeries.
From Time Magazine Archive
The quackeries of miracle-cure, shrine-cure, relic-cure, were destined to eclipse the genius of Hippocrates, and nearly two thousand years to intervene between Archimedes and Newton, nearly seventeen hundred between Hipparchus and Kepler.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper
