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单词 quackery
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Definition of quackery in English:

quackery

noun ˈkwakəriˈkwæk(ə)ri
mass noun
  • Dishonest practices and claims to have special knowledge and skill in some field, typically medicine.

    a website dedicated to exposing medical quackery
    count noun the belief that these quackeries actually work
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Posting this sort of apparently innocuous message to newsgroups and mailing lists is one of the hallmarks of spammers and purveyors of quackery.
    • Alarm made him listen to all manner of quackery.
    • I'm sure you that know the entire profession is based on unscientific quackery.
    • These organizations are supposedly immune to quackery, pseudoscience, and plain swindles.
    • Such quackeries do not make old people young and ugly girls pretty.
    • Substituting logic and reasoning for quackery and fraud appalls me.
    • Exposing quackery in clinical psychology has in fact a much longer history than the article notes.
    • Mesmerism is a bit of medical quackery developed in the 18th century by Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer.
    • Let us not be put off by the use of the word holistic, which we have come frequently to associate with some homeopathic quackery.
    • Some psychiatrists dismiss EMDR as outright quackery.

Rhymes

hackery, Thackeray, Zachary
 
 

Definition of quackery in US English:

quackery

nounˈkwæk(ə)riˈkwak(ə)rē
  • Dishonest practices and claims to have special knowledge and skill in some field, typically medicine.

    a website dedicated to exposing medical quackery
    count noun the belief that these quackeries actually work
    Example sentencesExamples
    • These organizations are supposedly immune to quackery, pseudoscience, and plain swindles.
    • Alarm made him listen to all manner of quackery.
    • Substituting logic and reasoning for quackery and fraud appalls me.
    • Posting this sort of apparently innocuous message to newsgroups and mailing lists is one of the hallmarks of spammers and purveyors of quackery.
    • Such quackeries do not make old people young and ugly girls pretty.
    • Some psychiatrists dismiss EMDR as outright quackery.
    • Let us not be put off by the use of the word holistic, which we have come frequently to associate with some homeopathic quackery.
    • Exposing quackery in clinical psychology has in fact a much longer history than the article notes.
    • I'm sure you that know the entire profession is based on unscientific quackery.
    • Mesmerism is a bit of medical quackery developed in the 18th century by Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer.
 
 
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