skulduggery
IPA: skʌɫdˈʌgɝi
noun
- (countable) A devious device or trick.
- (uncountable) Dishonest, underhanded, or unscrupulous activities or behaviour.
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Examples of "skulduggery" in Sentences
- But alleged "skulduggery" in the funeral business may be partly to blame for LifeArt's shaky grip on life.
- Gounden said he and Radebe prided themselves on not being involved in any "skulduggery", and took the allegations made in the
- Picasso's "Guernica," while the warthog's kin, the babirusa, gives new meaning to the word skulduggery: On occasion, one of its two pairs of curving tusks will grow up and around and pierce right into its skull.
- My cohort in skulduggery Jesse just (and when I say just I mean four or five days ago) posted a nice blurb on the strange and stupid phenomenon of using “gay” as an adjective to describe things other than a person who is a homosexual.
- More title skulduggery - when I wrote the high-fantasy duology that would become, in the United States, "The Hidden Queen" and "Changer of Days" - well - that book was originally written as ONE BOOK, and that one book's name was "Changer of Days".
- More title skulduggery - when I wrote the high-fantasy duology that would become, in the United States, “The Hidden Queen” and “Changer of Days” - well - that book was originally written as ONE BOOK, and that one book’s name was “Changer of Days”.
- A side story of skulduggery is more dramatic still, if potentially litigious: as Lahey tells it, a former distributor of Sullivan St breads hired former Sullivan St bakers to start his own bakery, opened suddenly with an extremely similar product line, and started making deliveries to Sullivan St customers with no notice of a change of vendor — initially in stockpiled bags with the Sullivan St name and logo, yet.
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