quackery

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Recent Examples of quackery The coat’s origin occurred in the 19th century as the scientific method and thinking replaced some of the quackery and mysticism that was often used in the medical practice of the times. — Stephen J. Forman, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Nov. 2025 Yet, this theory has continued for years—centuries, in fact—to give rise to a wide range of colonic quackery. — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025 That is how CrossFit die-hards who dabble in Qanon quackery and blame wildfires on space lasers end up as the face of the House GOP. — Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2025 But the thought of a person who spreads the kind of dishonesty, quackery and junk science that Kennedy habitually does — especially about our precious kiddos — is nothing short of stomach churning. — S.e. Cupp, New York Daily News, 29 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for quackery
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quackery
  1. fakery
  2. deception
  3. hypocrisy
  4. imposture
  5. dishonesty
  6. deceit
  7. duplicity
  8. insincerity
Noun
  • That’s the deficiency side of integrity—where authenticity gives way to fakery, consistency erodes into unpredictability, and transparency slips into manipulation…But swing too far in the other direction, and the skyscraper becomes overly rigid—too stiff to sway with the wind.
    — Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • The green-screen effects are knowing in their outright fakery; the nerdiness of the whole enterprise is lampshaded with a whole setpiece in a comic-book store.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 2 June 2026
Definition of fakery
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  • Recent history suggests that the only effective counter to such meddling is a public statement alerting voters to the deception, by some credibly neutral, nonpartisan authority.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Peter trying to have a normal holiday while grieving Tony, Mysterio’s deception, and the post-credits scene that blows Peter’s life apart — all of it feeds into where the new film finds him.
    — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of deception
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  • These poems used images from ordinary life to warn against greed, religious hypocrisy and an excessive attachment to worldly possessions.
    — Peter Dziedzic, The Conversation, 30 July 2026
  • No interest in the contradictions, the hypocrisy, the inappropriate media friendships, the dishonesty about lockdowns, the lab leak, or masks.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 28 July 2026
Definition of hypocrisy
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  • The Geneva Bible, which Knox helped to prepare, was in English rather than Lowland Scots, and the resulting imposture fatally separated the nation’s heart from its head.
    — David Wheatley, The New York Review of Books, 9 May 2026
  • Body Double Long before the imposture of Anna Delvey, the Tichborne Claimaint swept a nation’s imagination.
    — JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
Definition of imposture
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  • No interest in the contradictions, the hypocrisy, the inappropriate media friendships, the dishonesty about lockdowns, the lab leak, or masks.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 28 July 2026
  • The detective-heroines (and especially the actress-detectives) in this canon are careful about how performance might be extended to social duplicity, dishonesty, and fraud—but the lady criminals of Victorian detective fiction cross this line easily.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 July 2026
Definition of dishonesty
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  • Kings, Queens and Sea Snakes Elsewhere, Alicent and Helaena are caught trying to escape and Helaena learns of Alicent’s deceit.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • Homer may have viewed Odysseus’s deceit and pillaging as glorious.
    — Luis Parrales, The Atlantic, 26 July 2026
Definition of deceit
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  • This latest act of duplicity is a new low, even for the HFPA.
    — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 28 July 2026
  • The detective-heroines (and especially the actress-detectives) in this canon are careful about how performance might be extended to social duplicity, dishonesty, and fraud—but the lady criminals of Victorian detective fiction cross this line easily.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 July 2026
Definition of duplicity
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  • It was made that much worse when several cast members laughed at her insincerity and Maddi Reese interrupted it several times because there was a stray cat nearby that terrified her.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 29 May 2026
  • Allen’s combo of flip insincerity and kindly concern is a terrific treat, recalling Bill Murray at his doofy best.
    — Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 11 Nov. 2025
Definition of insincerity

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