Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way.
The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
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Examples for "skulduggery"
Examples for "skulduggery"
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If high-end financial skulduggery were that straightforward we'd all be at it.
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I can't remember the last time I read claims of such old-fashioned skulduggery.
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Tells about the patent war and other skulduggery practiced by Shaffner.
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Like the best-laid skulduggery, it's hard to see how this one can fail.
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In the legal blogosphere there were accusations of old boys' networks and skulduggery.
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And it's the kind of slickness of, that I'm just suspicious of.
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Distracted, he moved by instinct, parting her and stroking through her slickness.
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First the martial music, and then the buttery slickness of the announcer.
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We took turns wiping some of the sweat and slickness from us.
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But it was different this time: the cold slickness of latex was gone.
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There is some hocus-pocus about everything you do in the army.
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To this end Mephistopheles devises the elaborate hocus-pocus of the Mothers.
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Sorry about the hocus-pocus, but there is too much at stake.
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Otherwise hocus-pocus alone prospers, and he who does forgive it is not forgiven.
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So the padre does some hocus-pocus and commands the demon to haul ass.
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At rather great expense and with devious skullduggery engineered by your Lady Lasthenia.
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High-finance shenanigans are involved, notably skullduggery by the American financier John P Milligan.
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It never occurred to the connivers that skullduggery went both ways.
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Shifting the blame for domestic woes on to foreign skullduggery is well established practice.
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Liberal and conservative justices alike have criticized gerrymandering as a form of partisan skullduggery.
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Are we sure the third wasn't also into the hanky panky?
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You mean you want an explanation of this hanky panky.
3
There is some hanky panky with a seedy actor whom she has never much liked.
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You can leave the two of them alone and you never have to worry about any hanky panky.
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No hanky panky going on so he squeezed into the room he had a empty suitcase in his hand.
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Hip-hop by way of Johannesburg jive, Mexican Mariachi and hillbilly jiggery-pokery.
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Hadn't there been some jiggery-pokery with his books in London?
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But that doesn't stop a bit of gay jiggery-pokery.
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And here's your present, all exactly as you asked this time and no jiggery-pokery to it.
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His fiscal jiggery-pokery has been fully exposed.
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The result is teasingly brilliant and prefigures some of postmodernism's best trickery.
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His trickery and pace on the flank caused Motherwell problems all game.
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The speed humps and one-way systems added a new layer of trickery.
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Beatrice studied the document, and in silence canvassed the possibilities of trickery.
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This makes the cultivation of the love of trickery the more dangerous.
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But in response to questions from WIRED, Bkav denied any such trickery.
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It is impossible that there can be any trickery in the matter.
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It might have been part of her trickery; he could not tell.
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He was above and beyond all deceit and trickery and personal selfishness.
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Thus it seemed to him anything but intelligent to believe in trickery.
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Can it be, despite our recent friendship, you suspect some foul trickery?
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He had perceived the trickery, the dissimulation and hypocrisy of Roman priestcraft.
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The story of her trickery and her exposure would run through Aix.
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With nothing to lose, the Jets started the game with some trickery.
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Sony's cameras have just one lens, so some digital trickery is required.
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Look at the table too, and satisfy yourselves there is no trickery.
