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
  • This is a game of deception after all, and everyone is in on it.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The paper adds to a small but growing body of evidence that today’s most advanced AI models are becoming capable of strategic deception.
    Billy Perrigo, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of deception
Noun
  • The company summoned all its acoustical trickery to target the sound so that music and podcasts almost seem to appear in your head for intimate yet airy performance.
    Ryan Waniata, WIRED, 9 Dec. 2024
  • But sometimes, all that’s required to open up a room is a little visual trickery: A coat of paint in the right shade can instantly make even the most cramped kitchen feel airy and bright.
    Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of trickery
Noun
  • The eternal fight for liberty — slaves into gladiators, gladiators into free men — calls for courage and purpose beyond Lucius’s nightmarish expectations, uncovering the treachery and chicanery of Roman politics.
    Armond White, National Review, 6 Dec. 2024
  • After eight episodes of legal and emotional chicanery, a jury finds Rusty Sabich not guilty of murdering his lover, Carolyn Polhemus.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 25 July 2024
Definition of chicanery
Noun
  • In the past, Yellowstone characters have pulled off relatively elaborate acts of subterfuge and scheming with multilayered plans that need lots of arguing and surprise twists and time — like, several episodes’ worth of time.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024
  • This content, much of it clearly generated by AI rather than intended to deceive—a medium of crude self-expression, not sophisticated subterfuge—may have been the technology’s biggest impact on the 2024 presidential election.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of subterfuge
Noun
  • The eternal fight for liberty — slaves into gladiators, gladiators into free men — calls for courage and purpose beyond Lucius’s nightmarish expectations, uncovering the treachery and chicanery of Roman politics.
    Armond White, National Review, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Hosted by Alan Cumming, the game of treachery and deceit returns to Peacock on Thursday, January 9th.
    Anne Easton, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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
  • The political machinations on the right and left appear little more than gamesmanship.
    Joseph Ataman, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Some might suggest that peddling ideas of heroic viticulture is akin to marketing gamesmanship, that the consumer is forced to foot the bill for wines produced too far from the tenets of entrepreneurship and economies of scale.
    Paul Caputo, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
Definition of gamesmanship
Noun
  • Congressional legerdemain can’t wave away that reality.
    Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Both activities depended on legerdemain and made elaborate use of optical illusions.
    Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
Definition of legerdemain
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