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skulduggery
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun skulduggery has 1 sense
- skulduggery(n = noun.communication) hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery - verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way; Array is a kind of deceit, deception, misrepresentation
OXFORD DICTIONARY
skulduggery, n. (also sculduggery, skullduggery) trickery; unscrupulous behaviour.
Etymology
earlier sculduddery, orig. Sc. = unchastity (18th c.: orig. unkn.)
THESAURUS
skulduggery
artifice, chicane, chicanery, collusion, connivance, connivery, conspiracy, covin, dodgery, foul play, machination, pettifoggery, pettifogging, sharp practice, sleight, supercherie, trickery, underhand dealing
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