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US
/skəɫˈdəɡɝˌi/
]
[ UK /skˈʌldəɡəɹi/ ]
[ UK /skˈʌldəɡəɹi/ ]
NOUN
- verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
How To Use skulduggery In A Sentence
- Under the opulent chandelier of the Continental Hotel, well-heeled characters try to simulate bourgeois normality in a world of chaotic street battles and high-level skulduggery.
- 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. That’s so. . . « paper fruit
- It was a full-frontal assault more akin to the unscrupulous skulduggery of a US presidential campaign.
- What the Sligo County Board have done is to engage in a low, mean-spirited, under-hand piece of skulduggery.
- Opposition parties have levelled insinuations of skulduggery and secret agreements, but the Australian government has stuck hard to the line that no deal had been done.
- But one person's skulduggery is another's wiliness.
- It's reasonable to imagine that at least some of the past skulduggery deposited similarly pursuable paper trails. Times, Sunday Times
- 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”. Entitled at SF Novelists
- Gounden said he and Radebe prided themselves on not being involved in any "skulduggery", and took the allegations made in the ANC Daily News Briefing
- You could fill a book on the scandal and dirty dealing that used to operate in Burgundy: every winemaker from the region will tell you his own tale of skulduggery.