Word Meanings - JUGGLERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The art or act of a juggler; sleight of hand. 2. Trickery; imposture; as, political jugglery.
Related words: (words related to JUGGLERY)
- SLEIGHTLY
Cunningly. Huloet. - SLEIGHT
1. Cunning; craft; artful practice. "His sleight and his covin." Chaucer. 2. An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation. The world hath many subtle sleights. Latimer. 3. Dexterous - SLEIGHTY
Cunning; sly. Huloet. - JUGGLERESS
1. A female juggler. T. Warton. - TRICKERY
The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture. - POLITICALLY
1. In a political manner. 2. Politicly; artfully. Knolles. - SLEIGHTFUL
Cunning; dexterous. - IMPOSTURE
The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating. From new legends And fill the world with follies and impostures. Johnson. Syn. -- Cheat; fraud; trick; imposition; delusion. - IMPOSTURED
Done by imposture. - POLITICALISM
Zeal or party spirit in politics. - JUGGLER
jongleor, F. jongleur, fr. L. joculator a jester, joker, fr. joculus a little jest or joke, dim. of jocus jest, joke. See Joke, and cf. 1. One who practices or exhibits tricks by sleight of hand; one skilled in legerdemain; a conjurer. As nimble - JUGGLERY
1. The art or act of a juggler; sleight of hand. 2. Trickery; imposture; as, political jugglery. - POLITICAL
1. Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration. "A political government." Evelyn. 2. Of or pertaining to public policy, or to politics; relating to affairs of state or administration; as, a political writer. "The political state - METROPOLITICAL
Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair. Bp. Hall. - IMPOLITICAL
Impolitic. -- Im`po*lit"i*cal*ly, adv. Bacon. - COSMOPOLITICAL
Having the character of a cosmopolite. Hackluyt. - SELF-IMPOSTURE
Imposture practiced on one's self; self-deceit. South.