Quackery

Definitions

1. The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.
   uncountable
2. An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“[…] the manifold and serpentine wiles and evasions, shufflings and fencings, deceits and dissimulations, he had practised —the bunkums and the quackeries, […]”

CEFR level