skullduggery
or skul·dug·ger·y
[ skuhl-duhg-uh-ree ]
noun,plural skull·dug·ger·ies.
dishonorable proceedings; mean dishonesty or trickery: They dealt in bribery, graft, and other such skullduggery.
an instance of dishonest or deceitful behavior; trick.
Origin of skullduggery
1An Americanism dating back to 1865–70; variant of sculduddery, originally Scots: “fornication, obscenity,” of unknown origin
- Sometimes scull·dug·ger·y, scul·dug·ger·y .
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use skullduggery in a sentence
If you put over any of your sculduggery on us, he'll wipe you off the map no matter in what lonesome hole you hide.
Steve Yeager | William MacLeod Raine
Browse