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Meaning of Quackery | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
ˈkwæk(ə)ri

Definitions

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

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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

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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