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Meanings of jiggery-pokery in English
Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way.
Synonyms
Examples for "trickery"
Examples for "trickery"
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The result is teasingly brilliant and prefigures some of postmodernism's best trickery.
2
His trickery and pace on the flank caused Motherwell problems all game.
3
The speed humps and one-way systems added a new layer of trickery.
4
Beatrice studied the document, and in silence canvassed the possibilities of trickery.
5
This makes the cultivation of the love of trickery the more dangerous.
1
If high-end financial skulduggery were that straightforward we'd all be at it.
2
I can't remember the last time I read claims of such old-fashioned skulduggery.
3
Tells about the patent war and other skulduggery practiced by Shaffner.
4
Like the best-laid skulduggery, it's hard to see how this one can fail.
5
In the legal blogosphere there were accusations of old boys' networks and skulduggery.
1
And it's the kind of slickness of, that I'm just suspicious of.
2
Distracted, he moved by instinct, parting her and stroking through her slickness.
3
First the martial music, and then the buttery slickness of the announcer.
4
We took turns wiping some of the sweat and slickness from us.
5
But it was different this time: the cold slickness of latex was gone.
1
There is some hocus-pocus about everything you do in the army.
2
To this end Mephistopheles devises the elaborate hocus-pocus of the Mothers.
3
Sorry about the hocus-pocus, but there is too much at stake.
4
Otherwise hocus-pocus alone prospers, and he who does forgive it is not forgiven.
5
So the padre does some hocus-pocus and commands the demon to haul ass.
1
At rather great expense and with devious skullduggery engineered by your Lady Lasthenia.
2
High-finance shenanigans are involved, notably skullduggery by the American financier John P Milligan.
3
It never occurred to the connivers that skullduggery went both ways.
4
Shifting the blame for domestic woes on to foreign skullduggery is well established practice.
5
Liberal and conservative justices alike have criticized gerrymandering as a form of partisan skullduggery.
1
Are we sure the third wasn't also into the hanky panky?
2
You mean you want an explanation of this hanky panky.
3
There is some hanky panky with a seedy actor whom she has never much liked.
4
You can leave the two of them alone and you never have to worry about any hanky panky.
5
No hanky panky going on so he squeezed into the room he had a empty suitcase in his hand.
Usage of jiggery-pokery in English
1
Hip-hop by way of Johannesburg jive, Mexican Mariachi and hillbilly jiggery-pokery.
2
Hadn't there been some jiggery-pokery with his books in London?
3
But that doesn't stop a bit of gay jiggery-pokery.
4
And here's your present, all exactly as you asked this time and no jiggery-pokery to it.
5
His fiscal jiggery-pokery has been fully exposed.
6
You don't think any jiggery-pokery of this sort is going to snatch Clayton into the world of shades.
7
Government officials will temporize by getting scientists to "compromise" and "split the difference" between actual science and partisan jiggery-pokery.
8
The wife is cunning, deceitful, and lecherous, and she is invariably up to some sort of jiggery-pokery with the dirty dog.
9
Sadly, Conan Doyle had no time for homosexual jiggery-pokery and Holmes and Watson have so far been denied their rightful status as gay icons.
10
That same month his dissent on a ruling that affirmed Barack Obama's healthcare reforms dismissed the majority opinion as "pure applesauce" and "jiggery-pokery".
11
"Look here," he said, "I'm beginning to think there's been some jiggery-pokery somewhere.
12
"What sort of jiggery-pokery was Goode up to?"
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