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jiggery-pokery

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NOUN
  1. verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

How To Use jiggery-pokery In A Sentence

  • But here we're making predictions based on certain assumptions, just like Gartner is, and using similar mathematical jiggery-pokery.
  • It's a cover of ‘Diamonds Are Forever’, with some sort of gritty electro jiggery-pokery.
  • Therefore there was all this jiggery-pokery so that no one actually had to consider whether he had broken the law.
  • Labour will not come clean with its figures, so it is bound to describe ours as jiggery-pokery.
  • First Saskia admitted sleeping with Maxwell, and now Makosi and Anthony have been getting up to some suspect jiggery-pokery in the pool.
  • It seems astonishing that Bond got away with so much jiggery-pokery for as long as he did.
  • So we headed into nearby Soho for some late-night jiggery-pokery.
  • Labour will not come clean with its figures, so it is bound to describe ours as jiggery-pokery.
  • Human contacts increasingly are not human at all, but electronic jiggery-pokery - even voices are made redundant by text and e-mail.
  • You're saying there's some jiggery-pokery involved?
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