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.