Lexicographical Neighbors of Dodgeries
Literary usage of Dodgeries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1868)
"Lifelong shiftiness in politics, the dodgeries of party, and the small rogueries
of office, would give many a clue to such artifices as these. ..."
2. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1874)
"You understand the dodgeries of the public offices, and you'll be invaluable in
getting our contracts out. You shall double your income, ..."
3. The English Revolution of the Twentieth Century: A Prospective History by Henry Lazarus (1897)
"And so your Mammon-peer, by lying prospectus, and other limited company dodgeries,
extracted one million sterling from the pockets of the confiding British ..."
4. Patriotism and Popular Education ...: The Whole Discourse Being in the Form by Henry Arthur Jones (1920)
"... what harvests of misery and despair, what alternations of assassins' plots
and politicians' dodgeries, what wildernesses of talk in Parliament, ..."
5. Guesses at Truths, Ethical, Social, Political and Literary by David Christie Murray (1908)
"It is trying to play off upon the electorate one of the disingenuous dodgeries
which make up the staple of party tactics. It is pretending to the Irish ..."
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