Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

Usage examples of skullduggery.

Gus Noblier had ruled Partout Parish off and on for fifteen of his fifty-three years three consecutive terms, one election lost to the vote hauling and assorted skullduggery of Duwayne Kenner, then a fourth victory.

One other actress, Samantha Eggar, was to provide him with a hotter piece of spice than he could swallow, while the renowned feminist Gloria Steinem would act as a one-person tribunal, judging, condemning, and sentencing Henry to not being able to make love to her because of his political skullduggery and ideological frigidity.

Colombian drug cartel, and high-level intelligence-agency skullduggery.

Danger, romance, skullduggery, an open charge upon the enemy or a silent stealth, apprehension, uncertainty, a task demanding all of one's courage and a straining of one's steel nerves.

Gaines was convinced beyond any reasonable doubt that there had been skullduggery, perhaps for years, with the temperament classification tests, and that Van Kleeck had deliberately transferred the kind of men he needed to one sector, after falsifying their records.

The detection of skullduggery with the innards of a voting machine would call for a type of investigation, probably by the FBI, beyond the scope of practical field politics.

Again, the lesson of the second Nixon administration is instructive: Once we learned of the break-ins, wiretaps, payoffs, and skullduggery of Richard Nixon's presidency, no one believed that the Nixon we were watching on television was the real man telling the real truth.