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skulduggery
[ skuhl-duhg-uh-ree ]
skulduggery
/ skʌlˈdʌɡərɪ /
noun
- informal.underhand dealing; trickery
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Word History and Origins
Origin of skulduggery1
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Example Sentences
Tax skulduggery is mostly about keeping income off your tax returns (i.e., hiding it from the tax man).
Jon Stewart's parody coverage of the story has relentlessly emphasized not his cable-stealing skulduggery but—his blondness.
Don Loris vexedly tried to contrive some useful skulduggery without the information to base it on.
“It was a simple matter of scientific knowledge and a little skulduggery,” pursued the story-teller obligingly.
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