jiggery-pokery

noun

ˈji-gər-ē-ˈpō-kər-ē How to pronounce jiggery-pokery (audio)
Definition of jiggery-pokerynext
as in deception
the use of clever underhanded actions to achieve an end the judge ordered the corporation to hand over all records, with no jiggery-pokery about unexpected problems and missing information

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  1. deception
  2. trickery
  3. chicanery
  4. subterfuge
  5. treachery
  6. skulduggery
  7. gamesmanship
  8. legerdemain
Noun
  • But because pressured waterfowl aren’t easy to fool, hunters have been trying to perfect the art of decoy deception to swing the odds in their favor.
    Alice Jones Webb, Outdoor Life, 14 Nov. 2024
  • On Thursday, Prime Video debuted the first trailer for its series adaptation of the 1999 teen movie, all eight episodes premiering Nov. 21 on the streamer, bringing a familiar tale of deception to a new locale with all new characters.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of deception
Noun
  • The documentary never suitably addresses any of this, nor Goode’s trickery.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2024
  • While sudden incidents wrest the plot in new directions, the film is driven less by perverse narrative trickery than by the arbitrary cruelty of fate or the volatility of human nature.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Sep. 2024
Definition of trickery
Noun
  • Specifically, expect to see a new look at the latest DLC for Alan Wake 2, The Lake House, and an in-depth look at the latest chicanery coming out of Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii.
    Ash Parrish, The Verge, 17 Oct. 2024
  • OpenAI did not inflict its current legal headache on itself out of cunning chicanery, but out of a desire to satisfy a number of different early stakeholders, many of them true believers.
    Kelsey Piper, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Definition of chicanery
Noun
  • Putin’s ties to social media What Putin lacks as a military leader, the former KGB secret agent makes up for in subterfuge.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2024
  • When Lorraine’s cocoon of wealth begins to crack after Dot’s subterfuge, Wayne’s injuries, Roy’s threats, and Danish’s disappearance, Leigh centers the Queen of Debt’s humanizing concern.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2024
Definition of subterfuge
Noun
  • Hosted by Alan Cumming, the game of treachery and deceit returns to Peacock on Thursday, January 9th.
    Anne Easton, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Politics is full of deceit, treachery, and betrayal. . . .
    Quintus Tullius Cicero, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2012
Definition of treachery
Noun
  • There are many reasons beyond cheating and skulduggery that someone might root or modify their Android device.
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 30 July 2024
  • And so the tale of how the Giants established themselves at the Polo Grounds is told, accurately enough, as a piece of complicated capitalist skulduggery in which the team’s desperate owner bought a controlling interest in the Baltimore Orioles and then dragged its stars north.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Definition of skulduggery
Noun
  • After the game, Roberts indicated there was no gamesmanship intended in that answer.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The juxtaposition of the two worlds, one of which had been grazing horses in this area of the steppe for millennia, the other of which had, in a moment of daring and gamesmanship, started launching people into the cosmos with rockets meant to annihilate humanity, filled McConnell with wonder.
    Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
Definition of gamesmanship
Noun
  • Both activities depended on legerdemain and made elaborate use of optical illusions.
    Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Any such legislative legerdemain would be an unwarranted assault to circumvent the caps.
    State Senator Stephen Harding, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2024
Definition of legerdemain
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