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jiggery-pokerynoun the use of clever underhanded actions to achieve an endthe judge ordered the corporation to hand over all records, with no jiggery-pokery about unexpected problems and missing information artifice, chicane, chicanery, gamesmanship, hanky-panky, jugglery, legerdemain, skulduggery(or skullduggery), subterfuge, trickery, wile artfulness, caginess(also cageyness), craftiness, cunning, deviousness, foxiness, oiliness, shadiness, sharpness, shiftiness, shrewdness, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, sneakiness, treachery, underhandedness, wilinesscrookedness, crookery, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, guile, guilefulness, hypocrisy, insincerityfakery, humbuggery, imposture, quackerydirty pool, dirty tricksdesign, plotting, scheming, secrecy, stealth artlessness, forthrightness, guilelessness, ingenuousness, sinceritycandidness, candor, directness, openness, plainness, plainspokenness ca. 1892 |