Definition of Jugglery

1. Noun. Artful trickery designed to achieve an end. "The senator's tax program was mere jugglery"

Generic synonyms: Chicane, Chicanery, Guile, Shenanigan, Trickery, Wile
Derivative terms: Juggle

2. Noun. The performance of a juggler.
Generic synonyms: Maneuver, Manoeuvre, Play
Derivative terms: Juggle

Definition of Jugglery

1. n. The art or act of a juggler; sleight of hand.

Definition of Jugglery

1. Noun. The art of a juggler (i.e. trickery or deception). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Jugglery

1. the art of a juggler [n -GLERIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jugglery

jugger
juggernaut
juggernauts
jugging
juggings
juggins
jugginses
jugglable
juggled
juggler
juggleress
juggleresses
juggleries
jugglers
jugglery (current term)
juggles
juggling
jugglingly
jugglings
juggs
jughandle
jughandles
jughead
jugheads
juglandaceous
juglandin
juglandine
juglans
juglet

Literary usage of Jugglery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Collection from the Newspaper Writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers by Nathaniel Peabody Rogers (1847)
"Why limit to Egyptian priests this disinclination to own jugglery—when it is ... We at once suspected jugglery had been practised on Campbell's verse, ..."

2. A Collection from the Miscellaneous Writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers by Nathaniel Peabody Rogers (1849)
"Why limit to Egyptian priests this disinclination to own jugglery—when it is ... We at once suspected jugglery had been practised on Campbell's verse, ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Only too often it was merely a jugglery Comnenus Ducas Diogenes Isaac I John Constantine X Eudocia Romanus IV Г Alexius II John II Isaac Manuel I Andronicus ..."

4. Southern History of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1865)
"Political jugglery of Seymour's Expedition.—Price of "Three Electoral Votes."—SHERMAN'S EXPEDITION IN THE SOUTHWEST.—What it Contemplated. ..."

5. Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers by James Donaldson, Alexander Roberts, Allan Menzies, Novatianus (1868)
"Further Acts of jugglery on the part of Marcus. And this [Marcus], infusing [the aforesaid] mixture into a smaller cup, was in the habit of delivering it to ..."

6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1874)
"I do not understand any jugglery by which we voted down $0500 on the ground that it was not enough." The Vice-Président : " The Chair overrules the point of ..."

7. Municipal franchises: a description of the terms and conditions upon which by Delos Franklin Wilcox (1910)
"Looting the utility through financial jugglery—One of the natural results of overcapitalization and especially of ..."

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