quackery als zelfstandig naamwoord: - 1
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quackery
zelfstandig naamwoord
1 quackery
Medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings.
synoniem: empiricism.
Roget 699:
unskillfulness
etc.
adj.;
want of skill
etc.
698;
incompetence,
incompentency†;
inability,
infelicity,
indexterity†,
inexperience;
disqualification,
unproficiency†;
quackery.
folly,
stupidity
etc.
499;
indiscretion
etc.
(rashness)
863;
thoughtlessness
etc.
(inattention)
458
(neglect)
460;
sabotage.
mismanagement,
misconduct;
impolicy†;
maladministration;
misrule,
misgovernment,
misapplication,
misdirection,
misfeasance;
petticoat government.
absence of rule,
rule of thumb;
bungling
etc.
v.;
failure
etc.
732;
screw loose: too many cooks.
blunder
etc.
(mistake)
495;
etourderie gaucherie [Fr.],
act of folly,
balourdise†;
botch,
botchery†;
bad job,
sad work.
sprat sent out to catch a whale,
much ado about nothing,
wild-goose chase.
bungler
etc.
701;
fool
etc.
501.
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2 quackery
The dishonesty of a charlatan.
synoniem: charlatanism.
Roget 544:
falsehood,
falseness;
falsity,
falsification;
deception
etc.
545;
untruth
etc.
546;
guile;
lying
etc.
454;
untruth
etc.
546;
guile;
lying
etc.
v..
misrepresentation;
mendacity,
perjury,
false swearing;
forgery,
invention,
fabrication;
subreption†;
covin†.
perversion of truth,
suppression of truth;
suppressio veri [Lat.];
perversion,
distortion,
false coloring;
exaggeration
etc.
549;
prevarication,
equivocation,
shuffling,
fencing,
evasion,
fraud;
suggestio falsi
etc.
(lie)
546 [Lat.];
mystification
etc.
(concealment)
528;
simulation
etc.
(imitation)
19;
dissimulation,
dissembling;
deceit;
blague†.
sham;
pretense,
pretending,
malingering.
lip homage,
lip service;
mouth honor;
hollowness;
mere show,
mere outside;
duplicity,
double dealing,
insincerity,
hypocrisy,
cant,
humbug;
jesuitism,
jesuitry;
pharisaism;
Machiavelism,
organized hypocrisy;"
crocodile tears,
mealy-mouthedness†,
quackery;
charlatanism†,
charlatanry;
gammon;
bun-kum†,
bumcombe,
flam;
bam [Slang],
flimflam,
cajolery,
flattery;
Judas kiss;
perfidy
etc.
(bad faith)
940;
il volto sciolto i pensieri stretti [It].
unfairness
etc.
(dishonesty)
940;
artfulness
etc.
(cunning)
702;
misstatement
etc.
(error)
495.
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Roget 855:
affectation;
affectedness
etc.
adj.;
acting a part
etc.
v.;
pretense
etc.
(falsehood)
544,
(ostentation)
882;
boasting
etc.
884.
charlatanism,
quackery,
shallow profundity;
pretension,
airs,
pedantry,
purism,
precisianism,
euphuism;
teratology
etc.
(altiloquence)
577.
mannerism,
simagree,
grimace.
conceit,
foppery,
dandyism,
man millinery,
coxcombry,
puppyism.
stiffness,
formality,
buckram;
prudery,
demureness,
coquetry,
mock modesty,
minauderie,
sentimentalism;
mauvais honte,
false shame.
affector,
performer,
actor;
pedant,
pedagogue,
doctrinaire,
purist,
euphuist,
mannerist;
grimacier;
lump of affectation,
precieuse ridicule [Fr.],
bas bleu [Fr.],
blue stocking,
poetaster;
prig;
charlatan
etc.
(deceiver)
548;
petit maitre
etc.
(fop)
854;
flatterer
etc.
935;
coquette,
prude,
puritan.
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