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Etymology
Origin of jugglery
1250–1300; Middle English jogel ( e ) rie < Old French joglerie, equivalent to jogler juggler + -ie -y 3
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Cried another: "Let us never forget . . . the manipulations, financial jugglery, or what some would term jiggery-pokery."
From Time Magazine Archive
Secretary of Commerce Hoover grew downright irritated last week at the jugglery of the German-French potash monopoly.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had rounded up all his jokes and jugglery into an act.
From Time Magazine Archive
No such jugglery as followed and set aside the elections of 1868 and 1876 can prevail in 1928.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next, a troop of jugglers with polished spheres of gold, which they hurl up high jn flashing flights, and catch, and hurl again, making' fountain-jets of bright jugglery.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
She admired his energy; she was dazzled by the juggleries of his mediocre cleverness; she was proud to help him.
From The Torch Bearer by Reina Melcher Marquis
For all these things—a senseless mass of juggleries to the uninformed eye—are really growths of the human spirit struggling to develop its life, and full of instruction for those who learn to understand them.
From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Arthur B. Fuller
We do not know whether it was for similar juggleries, that, when at Wittenberg, the Elector John the Steadfast ordered him to be arrested, as Manlius relates.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 by Various
We are too close to Infinite love and wisdom to play pranks before it, and provoke comparison between our paltry juggleries and its omnipotence and majesty.
From Confessions and Criticisms by Julian Hawthorne
From time to time the Fata Morgana exhibits her juggleries, but we are accustomed to it now, and nobody is deceived thereby.
From Tales From J?kai by M?r J?kai
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