skulduggery
Meanings
Plural: skulduggeries
Noun
- verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
- A devious device or trick.
- Dishonest, underhanded, or unscrupulous activities or behaviour.
Origin / Etymology
An alteration of Scots sculduddery, sculdudrie (“adultery, unchaste behaviour; obscenity, lewdness”), of long-uncertain origin (probably a euphemism). Relation to skull is speculative at best and likely folk etymology.
Synonyms
dishonesty, hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, ruse, skullduggery, slickness, stratagem, subterfuge, thugduggery, trickery, underhandedness, unscrupulousness
Scrabble Score: 21
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