Dozens of astrological journals and newspapers are published; quackery drives out medicine; and all this mystical squalor is justified in every possible way by philosophical argumentation.
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Quackery
//ˈkwæk(ə)ri//
Synonyms for "quackery" (8 found)
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Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (2)
Noun(1 words)
Related words (4)
Noun(1 words)
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1 entriesRelated terms
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2 entriesis a
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4 entriesTranslations
31 translations across 24 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- շառլատանություն noun (practice)
Bulgarian
1 entries- шарлатанство noun (practice)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 庸醫的醫術 /庸医的医术 noun (practice)
Czech
2 entries- mastičkářství noun (practice)
- šarlatánství noun (practice)
Danish
1 entries- kvaksalveri noun (practice)
Dutch
1 entries- kwakzalverij noun (practice)
Finnish
2 entries- puoskarointi noun (practice)
- puoskarointi noun (instance)
French
1 entries- charlatanisme noun (practice)
German
1 entries- Quacksalberei noun (practice)
Greek
1 entries- αγυρτεία noun (practice)
Icelandic
1 entries- skottulækningar noun (practice)
Italian
2 entries- ciarlataneria noun (practice)
- frode medica noun (practice)
Japanese
1 entries- 偽医療 noun (practice)
Korean
1 entries- 엉터리 치료 noun (practice)
Latin
1 entries- pharmacopolia noun (practice)
Macedonian
1 entries- надрилекарство noun (practice)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kvakksalveri noun (practice)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- kvakksalveri noun (practice)
Polish
3 entries- szarlataneria noun (practice)
- szarlataństwo noun (practice)
- znachorstwo noun (practice)
Portuguese
1 entries- curandeirismo noun (practice)
Russian
1 entries- шарлата́нство noun (practice)
Spanish
2 entries- curanderismo noun (practice)
- curandería noun (practice)
Swedish
1 entries- kvacksalveri noun (practice)
Welsh
2 entries- crachfeddygaeth noun (practice)
- cwacyddiaeth noun (practice)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
A new online database is fighting medical quackery by helping people easily find out if their doctor has a license.
Source: tatoeba (12009152)
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.
Source: wiktionary
[…] the manifold and serpentine wiles and evasions, shufflings and fencings, deceits and dissimulations, he had practised —the bunkums and the quackeries, […]
Source: wiktionary
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