Skulduggery Skullduggery Skul Dug Uh Ree Noun Underhand Dealing Trickery Bribery

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.