How To Use Jobbery In A Sentence
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Thinks I to myself, this is what Mr. Hume would have, in the Commons House, called jobbery, and a poor kind of job it turned out; for, on inspecting the lime juice at Port Royal, some of it was condemned as unfit for use.
A Sailor of King George
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Unlike other towns of the West, it was insanitary and uneducated; it was also given to nepotism and a primitive kind of jobbery; but, on the whole, it was honest.
The World for Sale, Complete
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Dems have been elevating Tea Party whack-jobbery for months now.
Will the Dems' Tea Party strategy work?
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I say and protest with one voice against our further soiling our souls and hands in this infamous jobbery.
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However, those gent, trustee people often handle unjust, even somebody battles situation infestation, jobbery.
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This struggle finally reached the point at which cowhiding, cane thrashing and fisticuffs in the Capitol itself occurred among the candidates, and the jobbery became so openly vile and scandalous, that even a Democratic Legislature concluded it best to temporarily eliminate the jobbery feature of it, and this was done for two years of the Democratic adminisiration.
People's Party Hand-Book of Facts. Campaign of 1898.
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I want to make it quite clear that I shall never tolerate any kind of jobbery, nepotism or any influence directly or indirectly brought to bear upon me.
Bloggers.Pakistan
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One can bear coldly the jobbery of enemies, but not that of friends, and to Adams this kind of jobbery seemed always infinitely worse than all the petty money bribes ever exploited by the newspapers.
Silence (1894–1898)
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The people were with him, disgusted with the jobbery and corruption that had brought Pakistan low.
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Even complete nut-jobbery is fascinatingly entertaining.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [151] -- Obama's Speech
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Addressing a business breakfast attended by several former mayors in Somerset West, he claimed the ANC/NNP had even resorted to bribery and intimidation and the worst kind of "jobbery".
ANC Daily News Briefing
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In the first place, war and expansion will favor jobbery, both in the dependencies and at home.
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Organization of a few rural economics is on fund management, the tendency occurance of jobbery.
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Could there be a more fitting end to the Italian presidency than this bold example of jobbery?
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The penal laws against the Catholics, the iniquitous restrictions on Irish trade and industry, the selfish factiousness of the parliament, the jobbery and corruption of administration, the absenteeism of the landlords, and all the other too familiar elements of that mischievous and fatal system, were then in full force.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"