Quackery

Antonyms for quackery:

openness, reality, frankness, truth, honesty, truthfulness.

Synonyms for quackery:

Sense 1 (noun)

acupressure, acupuncture, alternative medicine, anaesthesia, analgesia, anesthesia, artificial insemination, Artificial Feeding, aftercare, aromatherapy.

charlatanism (noun)

deceitfulness, deception, dishonesty, imposture, misrepresentation, pretense, trickery.

deception (noun)

trickery.

quackery (noun)

charlatanism.

Other synonyms and related words:

charlatanism, empiricism, empiricist philosophy, sensationalism.

Usage examples for quackery:

• There was audacious quackery in a stage rescript from Moscow. - "The History of Napoleon Buonaparte", John Gibson Lockhart.
• Against all such social quackery the obvious injunction to the quacks is, to mind their own business. - "What Social Classes Owe to Each Other", William Graham Sumner.

Quotes for quackery:

• There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us. – William Hazlitt

Rhymes for quackery:

• zackery, thackeray, zachery, zachary;