skulduggery
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
hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery, dishonesty, ruse, stratagem, subterfuge, thugduggery, underhandedness, unscrupulousness
Scrabble Score: 21
skulduggery: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordskulduggery: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
skulduggery: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary