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Meanings of quackery in English
Portuguese
empirismo Medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings.
Fraudulent or inept medical practice involving untested or refuted treatments, promoted professionally or publicly.
Usage of quackery in English
1
Yet, for many, the food-mood link still has an aura of quackery.
2
You have influence and a voice and you're spreading falsehood and quackery.
3
We must protect vulnerable people from this dangerous quackery, she said.
4
Like the Hay, it involved food combining, but was ultimately dismissed as quackery.
5
Are you drawing the conclusion that modern treatments against ageing are also quackery?
6
It may smell of quackery, but it is exceedingly useful to the patient.
7
This fosters infidelity, and is mental quackery, that denies the Principle of Mind-healing.
8
Why, I shouldn't have let her take any of his quackery.
9
There is no quackery whatever in mathematics; no % equal to anything.
10
In the long run, all this quackery does no good.
11
The police declined the offers - in 1860 phrenology was widely dismissed as quackery.
12
There was audacious quackery in a stage rescript from Moscow.
13
The old medicine is either machine work or quackery, like the blood-letting of barbers.
14
They prescribe some quackery, and you have to drink it.
15
I daresay his quackery has made him a close observer.
16
What more loathsome than the swaggering quackery of some present holders of the hammer?
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