quackery
Example Sentences
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They quacked and shouted “Aflac!,” a nod to the ubiquitous insurance spokes-duck.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2022
But I quacked through the interviews just fine.
From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2020
“Pronoun trouble!” — as Daffy Duck quacked to Bugs Bunny in the 1952 Chuck Jones cartoon Rabbit Seasoning — is rampant these days, and probably always has been.
From Time • Aug. 1, 2014
Nick Smith MP said that if it looked like a duck, quacked like a duck and swam like a duck it must be, well, a corporation and so ought to pay.
From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2013
So, when the next lot of little ducklings hatched, Lorenz bent over them, quacked, and gradually moved away.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing quackery
Whirligig
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The Souls of Black Folk, Ch. 1, "Our Spiritual Strivings" by W.E.B. Du Bois
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