SKULDUGGERY

trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery

(noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

skulduggery (countable and uncountable, plural skulduggeries)

(countable) A devious device or trick.

Synonyms: ruse, strategem, subterfuge

(uncountable) Dishonest, underhanded, or unscrupulous activities or behaviour.

Synonyms: dishonesty, jiggery-pokery, subterfuge, thugduggery, trickery, underhandedness, unscrupulousness

Antonyms: honesty, probity

Synonyms

See also deception

Source: Wiktionary



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