Definition

1. Noun:
   • The performance of a juggler: The act or skill of keeping several objects in the air at the same time by throwing and catching them.
   • Artful trickery or deception: Clever but deceitful manipulation or trickery intended to achieve a goal, often by presenting facts or situations in a misleading way.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:
  • The street performer's jugglery with flaming torches was breathtaking.
  • The financial report was full of statistical jugglery to hide the company's losses.
  • He saw through the political jugglery and recognized the empty promises.

Advanced Usage

• "Verbal jugglery": The use of clever but deceptive language or arguments.
  • The lawyer's case relied more on verbal jugglery than on solid evidence.

Variants and Related Words

• Juggle (verb): To keep several objects in motion in the air at the same time; to handle or deal with several activities at once; to manipulate or arrange in a deceptive way.

  • She can juggle five balls at once.
  • He had to juggle his work and family responsibilities.
  • The accountant was accused of juggling the books.

• Juggler (noun): A person who performs jugglery; a person who deceives or manipulates.

  • The circus juggler was very skilled.

Synonyms

• For performance: Juggling, dexterity, legerdemain.
• For trickery: Deception, chicanery, subterfuge, sleight of hand, manipulation.

Related Idioms

• "A juggling act": A situation where someone must skillfully manage several different things or responsibilities at the same time.
  • Balancing a full-time job and night school is a real juggling act.

Noun

1. the performance of a juggler
2. artful trickery designed to achieve an end
   • the senator's tax program was mere jugglery