Quackish

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Like a quack or charlatan; dealing in quackery; humbugging.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Like a quack (fraudulent doctor), or characteristic of quackery.
  • Word Usage
    "His religious interview subjects on his world-tour range from the brilliant (Dr. Francis Collins, a scientist on the human genome project and an evangelical Christian), the bizarre (the actor who plays Jesus at The Holy Land Experience theme park in Orlando), the quackish (Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda, who claims to be a reincarnation of Christ), and the downright frightening (Aki Nawaz, aka Propa-Gandhi, a Muslim British rapper who glorifies suicide bombing)."
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    boasting