deception vs jiggery-pokery

jiggery-pokery vs deception

deception and jiggery-pokery both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
deception	Yes	No	No	No
jiggery-pokery	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, jiggery-pokery is a hyponym of deception; that is, jiggery-pokery is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than deception:

deception: a misleading falsehood
jiggery-pokery: verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

Other hyponyms of deception include bill of goods, humbug, snake oil, half-truth, facade, window dressing, exaggeration, magnification, overstatement, snow job, dissembling, feigning, pretence, pretense, blind, subterfuge, hanky panky, hocus-pocus, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery, duplicity, fraudulence, equivocation, evasion.

deception (noun)	jiggery-pokery (noun)
the act of deceiving	verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
a misleading falsehood

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