jiggery-pokery in English
noun
1
deceitful or dishonest behavior.
But this bit of scientific jiggery-pokery leaves my mind in an even more boggled state than usual.
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1. 6 Labour will not come clean with its figures, so it is bound to describe ours as jiggery-pokery.
2. Both she notes, are uncommon in American English, while jiggery-pokery is more commonly used among the Brits than argle-Bargle, which describes a disputable bandying of words, a …