Synonyms
jiggery-pokery old-fashioned informal
trickery disapproving
Meaning of skulduggery in English
(Definition of skulduggery from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of skulduggery
skulduggery
A special commission, chaired by the mayor, reviewed these valuations, an arrangement that offered ample scope for skulduggery.
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This provided the first opportunity for skulduggery.
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They are all juggling around, and a lot of skulduggery is going on.
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We do not seek to prevent such skulduggery, but we do wish to prevent exit polls that arise from actual voting.
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We shall then know whether the government indulged in any skulduggery during 1960.
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The third way of providing pictures was to rely on skulduggery.
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There has been a good deal of skulduggery and there is a great deal more.
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For the uninitiated, the mere mention of the words "overseas trust" raises the suspicion that some skulduggery is going on.
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That kind of skulduggery is not yet dead—not by a long way.
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I think "skulduggery" might be a bit of poetic licence.
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The present procedure is miserable and deceitful, nothing short of skulduggery.
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They get into their positions by political skulduggery and by certain pressures that are put on them.
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So it seems that this form of skulduggery has also been going on for some time.
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I asked what reassurance he could give to those who, like myself, had been prisoners that there had not been any skulduggery.
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These are the skulduggery tactics used by newspapers.
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