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Examples of jiggery-pokery


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All this jiggery-pokery about personal expenses is purely fictitious.
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The fact is that we have to get rid of a lot of this—not jiggery-pokery, but this nonsensical way we have of referring to measurements.
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I do not want any financial jiggery-pokery in this matter.
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If the court were simply to have to take into account "reasonable and fair" it could not disregard any jiggery-pokery.
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In other words, we are engaged in a piece of political jiggery-pokery, a piece of expediency.
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It is a nasty piece of political jiggery-pokery.
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No wonder the air is thick with accusations of statistical jiggery-pokery.
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All forms of jiggery-pokery have occurred in private legislation.
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The charge of jiggery-pokery does not arise in that way.
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Is it any wonder that there is a feeling that there is political jiggery-pokery at work?
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I will not be a party to any such political jiggery-pokery.
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There would be a repetition of the jiggery-pokery with interest rates.
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Therefore, when we talk about bringing down and controlling the rate of inflation, we discuss what is, in effect, a piece of jiggery-pokery.
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I understand that they have their own interests to serve, but this is statistical jiggery-pokery on a grand scale.
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Why cannot we decide if any jiggery-pokery was going on?
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It rests on nothing more substantial than pseudo-science, compounded of anecdotal evidence, selective surveys and statistical jiggery-pokery.
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I am afraid that in certain sectors of the economy there is a great deal of jiggery-pokery and every advantage will be taken.
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Is it not time we stopped this racket, this jiggery-pokery, on the part of a number of people, of which he is well aware?
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He has twice made charges of jiggery-pokery and, when such charges are made, he should be specific.
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That does not involve any unfairness and it does not involve any jiggery-pokery.
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It is ridiculous to say that there will be jiggery-pokery and non-payment of revenue.
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We will not be put off by a bit of jiggery-pokery in the corner.
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In spite of everything and all the jiggery-pokery of the identity parades, both men were convicted and sent to prison.
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I would like us to guard against this kind of legal jiggery-pokery and nonsense for three reasons.
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I am also sure that this would make for a much fairer presentation and that people would feel that there was no jiggery-pokery.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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