jugglery

[ juhg-luh-ree ]

noun

, plural jug·gler·ies.

1. the art or practice of a juggler, especially sleight of hand.
2. the performance of juggling feats.
3. any trickery or deception.

Word History and Origins

Origin of jugglery¹

1250–1300; Middle English jogel ( e ) rie < Old French joglerie, equivalent to jogler juggler + -ie -y ³

Example Sentences

But Count Cagliostro's career of jugglery and fraud was nearly over.

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"No jugglery about this, however," he replied, looking somewhat amused.

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Attached to each company are two or three who play on musical instruments, and amuse the people with their feats of jugglery.

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That was a case of high mystification, of jugglery worthy of a street-corner mountebank.

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And here M. Gabet said that, allowing for some jugglery, it was impossible not to conclude that there was diabolic agency at work.

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