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noun, plural -ger·ies.
1.
dishonorable proceedings; mean dishonesty or trickery: bribery, graft, and other such skulduggery.
2.
an instance of dishonest or deceitful behavior; trick.
Also, skullduggery, sculduggery, scullduggery.
Origin:
1705–15, Americanism; variant of sculduddery, orig. Scots: fornication, obscenity < ?
1705–15, Americanism; variant of sculduddery, orig. Scots: fornication, obscenity < ?
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skulduggery
1856, apparently an alteration of Scottish sculdudrie "adultery" (1713), sculduddery "bawdry, obscenity" (1821), a euphemism of uncertain origin.
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