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\ |
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| 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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