Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The skill or performance of a juggler.
- noun Trickery; deception.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art or performances of a juggler; legerdemain; trickery; hence, imposture; deception.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art or act of a juggler; sleight of hand.
- noun Trickery; imposture.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The art of a
juggler (i.e.trickery ordeception ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the performance of a juggler
- noun artful trickery designed to achieve an end
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Examples
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'It is what some are pleased to call jugglery,' he answered, with a light, hard laugh.
Can Such Things Be Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1909
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'It is what some are pleased to call jugglery, 'he answered, with a light, hard laugh.
Can Such Things Be 1893
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"It is what some are pleased to call jugglery," he answered, with a light, hard laugh.
Can Such Things Be? Ambrose Bierce 1878
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All wisdom was now confined to a species of "word jugglery," which in Athens was dignified as "the art of disputation."
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But, in fact, the bartender does much more than that - he engages customers in entertaining conversation; he gives them the occasional surprise cocktail instead of sticking to the tried and tested stuff; he may even throw in some bar tool jugglery, which is called 'flair bartending'.
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"This is the kind of jugglery that has gone all through the [budget] document," he says.
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In like manner, he seems to disagree with Burke in a passage which he quotes, but in reality he agrees with him; for surely the "power of the imitation" is but a power of the "jugglery," to be sensible of which, if we understand him, is necessary to our sense of imitation.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various
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Mullaperiyar row: Dont's resort to 'jugglery': SC tells Kerala
WN.com - Articles related to Anand Sharma favours treating fisheries on a par with agriculture 2010
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Mullaperiyar row: Dont's resort to 'jugglery': SC tells Kerala
WN.com - Articles related to Anand Sharma favours treating fisheries on a par with agriculture 2010
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Mullaperiyar row: Dont's resort to 'jugglery': SC tells Kerala
WN.com - Articles related to Anand Sharma favours treating fisheries on a par with agriculture 2010
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