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Significados de jiggery-pokery en inglés

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Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way.

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      Examples for "trickery"
      Examples for "trickery"
      1
      The result is teasingly brilliant and prefigures some of postmodernism's best trickery.
      The Guardian
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      His trickery and pace on the flank caused Motherwell problems all game.
      BBC
      3
      The speed humps and one-way systems added a new layer of trickery.
      The water room
      4
      Beatrice studied the document, and in silence canvassed the possibilities of trickery.
      In the Year of Jubilee
      5
      This makes the cultivation of the love of trickery the more dangerous.
      America, Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat
      1
      If high-end financial skulduggery were that straightforward we'd all be at it.
      The Irish Times
      2
      I can't remember the last time I read claims of such old-fashioned skulduggery.
      The Irish Times
      3
      Tells about the patent war and other skulduggery practiced by Shaffner.
      The new yorker
      4
      Like the best-laid skulduggery, it's hard to see how this one can fail.
      The Guardian
      5
      In the legal blogosphere there were accusations of old boys' networks and skulduggery.
      The Guardian
      1
      And it's the kind of slickness of, that I'm just suspicious of.
      The new yorker
      2
      Distracted, he moved by instinct, parting her and stroking through her slickness.
      Eve of darkness
      3
      First the martial music, and then the buttery slickness of the announcer.
      Foundation and Empire
      4
      We took turns wiping some of the sweat and slickness from us.
      The Hyperion Cantos
      5
      But it was different this time: the cold slickness of latex was gone.
      The blackstone chronicles
      1
      There is some hocus-pocus about everything you do in the army.
      The Iron Game: A Tale of the War
      2
      To this end Mephistopheles devises the elaborate hocus-pocus of the Mothers.
      The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
      3
      Sorry about the hocus-pocus, but there is too much at stake.
      The Lost Sisterhood
      4
      Otherwise hocus-pocus alone prospers, and he who does forgive it is not forgiven.
      The Goose Man
      5
      So the padre does some hocus-pocus and commands the demon to haul ass.
      Speaking in Bones
      1
      At rather great expense and with devious skullduggery engineered by your Lady Lasthenia.
      Daughters of the Nile
      2
      High-finance shenanigans are involved, notably skullduggery by the American financier John P Milligan.
      The Guardian
      3
      It never occurred to the connivers that skullduggery went both ways.
      Existence
      4
      Shifting the blame for domestic woes on to foreign skullduggery is well established practice.
      Reuters
      5
      Liberal and conservative justices alike have criticized gerrymandering as a form of partisan skullduggery.
      Reuters
      1
      Are we sure the third wasn't also into the hanky panky?
      Storm Front
      2
      You mean you want an explanation of this hanky panky.
      Winnie Childs, the Shop Girl
      3
      There is some hanky panky with a seedy actor whom she has never much liked.
      The Irish Times
      4
      You can leave the two of them alone and you never have to worry about any hanky panky.
      Are you there, vodka? it's me, chelsea
      5
      No hanky panky going on so he squeezed into the room he had a empty suitcase in his hand.
      Further adventures
      Uso de jiggery-pokery en inglés
      1
      Hip-hop by way of Johannesburg jive, Mexican Mariachi and hillbilly jiggery-pokery.
      The Irish Times
      2
      Hadn't there been some jiggery-pokery with his books in London?
      The Man Who Knew
      3
      But that doesn't stop a bit of gay jiggery-pokery.
      Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
      4
      And here's your present, all exactly as you asked this time and no jiggery-pokery to it.
      Knight of the Demon Queen
      5
      His fiscal jiggery-pokery has been fully exposed.
      The Guardian
      6
      You don't think any jiggery-pokery of this sort is going to snatch Clayton into the world of shades.
      Twelve Stories and a Dream
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      Government officials will temporize by getting scientists to "compromise" and "split the difference" between actual science and partisan jiggery-pokery.
      Wired
      8
      The wife is cunning, deceitful, and lecherous, and she is invariably up to some sort of jiggery-pokery with the dirty dog.
      The Complete Short Stories Vol. 1
      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.
      The Irish Times
      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".
      The Guardian
      11
      "Look here," he said, "I'm beginning to think there's been some jiggery-pokery somewhere.
      Dogsbody
      12
      "What sort of jiggery-pokery was Goode up to?"
      Murder in the Gunroom
      Translations for jiggery-pokery
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