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skulduggery
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Word definitions for skulduggery in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A devious device or trick. 2 underhanded or unscrupulous behavior.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way [syn: trickery , hocus-pocus , slickness , hanky panky , jiggery-pokery , skullduggery ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1856, apparently an alteration of Scottish sculdudrie "adultery" (1713), sculduddery "bawdry, obscenity" (1821), a euphemism of uncertain origin.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Skulduggery is a role-playing game published by Pelgrane Press in 2010.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ He is serving a prison sentence for financial skulduggery . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ An account of that can be woven into the story of skulduggery that now follows. ▪ And yet ... she thought of Officer Hassan and his belief ...
Usage examples of skulduggery.
But the acoustics of the shaft magnify and multiply the sound so forebodingly that Amsel stops in the middle of his skulduggery, looks behind him over his rounded back, and turns the flashlight on his friend.
He guessed that Billy, like Barry, was not allowing for his acumen in this new world of skulduggery.
Lenny had made the mistake of never giving anyone their due, not respecting their part in any skulduggery that came his way or bothering to acknowledge their existence.
He remembered going there with Michael and Geoffrey after a bout of serious skulduggery and getting a large brekker and an alibi all rolled into one.
It seemed to me that when better skulduggeries are concocted, that Don Loris and his associates ought to concoct them.
If I told you two dears what the man who keeps The Blue Duck told Alan and me about the skulduggery that goes on in respectable little old Brighton, you wouldn't sleep sound in your beds.