spivvery

spivvery

(ˈspɪvərɪ)
n
the characteristic behaviour of a spiv
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In 2016, Fairfax sacked Michael West for his having the audacity to forensically pursue deep-rooted corporate spivvery.
Far from rescuing us from spivvery, greed and recklessness our Government is banking on it..
It would save us the gruesome spectacle of QCs spouting civil-rights cliches to justify institutionalised spivvery.
Leslie Grantham takes up spivvery on behalf of Private Walker and Peter Martin is a Captain Mainwaring who does not quite achieve the absurd pomposity of the TV original.
You couldn't have imagined a more wretched tale of spivvery, duplicity and downright lies.
Coming hard on the heels of the cash-foraccess scandal, it exposed a real spivvery at the heart of David Cameron's Tory Party which looks after its core constituents - big business and the wealthy - as it always has done.
We have always warned of Mr Cameron's lack of substance and his PR spivvery. And by resorting to the politics of the gutter, he has shown his true colours to the nation.
Is it any coincidence, do you think, that the three superpowers of English football have never once been linked with a man whose image of archetypal cockney spivvery will always leave a nasty taste in the mouths of fans based outside London?
STAFF at The Sun have been accused of a culture of "spivvery" by their bosses.
After all, isn't it just the sort of 'disgraceful casino-style spivvery' that has obsessed the Wapping liars for the last five months?
So, despite thuggery and spivvery dominating our back pages, this has been one of the most positive weeks in English football for a long while.