jiggery-pokery

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NOUN
  1. verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
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How To Use jiggery-pokery In A Sentence

  • It was a mark of the Scottish Executive's desperation to get off the Holyrood hook that the First Minister had to rely on fiscal jiggery-pokery.
  • This presidential and congressional jiggery-pokery is the height of public dishonesty.
  • With the clarity of hindsight, this sort of jiggery-pokery now seems worryingly typical of WorldCom's way of doing business.
  • Underscoring their eccentricity and quirky jiggery-pokery is an ability to crack out a memorable pop melody.
  • However, they only managed to conjure this up by jiggery-pokery.
  • He began to suspect that some jiggery-pokery had been going on.
  • How long can I do this sort of jiggery-pokery?
  • Why does that require ‘work’, unless there's some jiggery-pokery going on to ensure that the chart doesn't actually reflect the real numbers?
  • The fix is quite tricky, because Madame's people seem to've anticipated some kind of jiggery-pokery among the philoprogenitive. The Golden Torc
  • Sceptics, and there are always a few, suspect a bit of jiggery-pokery and claim that nothing is ever quite what it seems.
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