Examples of quackery in a Sentence
His cure was nothing but quackery.
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Part of it is that the history of this field, both scientifically and technologically, has really been plagued by the shadow of quackery.
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IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
Around 1910, the American Medical Association cracked down on quackery, and inventions like the Heidelberg Electric Belt, which sometimes caused sores, faded from the pages of the Sears Big Book.
—Leo Deluca, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2023
The potential, acknowledged by doctors, for the vibrator to be used in masturbation was just further evidence of its quackery.
—Kim Adams, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2020
Rethinking the Vibrator’s History For most of the 20th century, vibrators remained innocuous quackery.
—Kim Adams, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2020
And, according to modern scholars, L’Orvietan’s curative claims probably weren’t just pre-Enlightenment quackery.
—Elizabeth Heath, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2023
Cue up the ads for pillows and quackery.
—Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 4 Nov. 2020
The idea is a sort of Grand Unified Theory of anti-quackery.
—Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
There are many parallels between that pandemic and this one, with people fighting mask mandates and the quackery that was involved with people trying everything under the sun to try to take care of the disease.
—Molly Glick, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2021
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IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
Around 1910, the American Medical Association cracked down on quackery, and inventions like the Heidelberg Electric Belt, which sometimes caused sores, faded from the pages of the Sears Big Book.
—Leo Deluca, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2023
The potential, acknowledged by doctors, for the vibrator to be used in masturbation was just further evidence of its quackery.
—Kim Adams, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2020
Rethinking the Vibrator’s History For most of the 20th century, vibrators remained innocuous quackery.
—Kim Adams, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2020
And, according to modern scholars, L’Orvietan’s curative claims probably weren’t just pre-Enlightenment quackery.
—Elizabeth Heath, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2023
Cue up the ads for pillows and quackery.
—Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 4 Nov. 2020
The idea is a sort of Grand Unified Theory of anti-quackery.
—Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
There are many parallels between that pandemic and this one, with people fighting mask mandates and the quackery that was involved with people trying everything under the sun to try to take care of the disease.
—Molly Glick, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2021
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First Known Use
circa 1711, in the meaning defined above
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quackery
noun
quack·ery
ˈkwak-(ə-)rē 
: the practices or claims of a quack
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