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Skulduggery Skullduggery Skul Dug Uh Ree Noun Underhand Dealing Trickery Bribery

Skulduggery refers to underhanded dealings such as trickery or bribery.

Skulduggery refers to underhanded dealings such as trickery or bribery.

Front skulduggery, also skullduggery \skul-DUG-uh-ree\
Back noun
Underhand dealing: trickery, bribery, etc.

[An American coinage, apparently from the alteration of Scots sculduddery (fornication, obscenity). Earliest documented use: 1867.]

"In the 1980s [the Vatican Bank] was accused of involvement in financial skulduggery and responsibility for the still-mysterious death of a prominent Italian banker, Roberto Calvi." - God's Bankers; The Economist (London, UK); Jul 7, 2012.

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