Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Bungling work; botchery; gross, bungling hypocrisy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Botchery; covering of defects; bungling; hypocrisy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Hypocrisy ;trickery . - noun That which is thrown or sown together usually clumsily or with different color and textures, like
patchwork .
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Examples
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Wilson, and Hathaway: a thin sample of poetic patchery cobbled up and stitched together so as to serve its hour for a season without falling to pieces at the first touch.
A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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Here is such patchery, such juggling and such knavery! all the argument is a cuckold and a whore; a good quarrel to draw emulous factions and bleed to death upon.
Troilus and Cressida 2004
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Here is such patchery, such juggling, and such knavery! all the argument is a cuckold and a whore; a good quarrel to draw emulous factions and bleed to death upon.
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Here is such patchery, such juggling and such knavery! all the argument is a cuckold and a whore; a good quarrel to draw emulous factions and bleed to death upon.
Troilus and Cressida 1601
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2318: Know his grosse patchery, loue him, feede him,
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