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Meanings of skullduggery in English

Portuguese
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Catalan
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Spanish
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Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way.

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Usage of skullduggery in English
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At rather great expense and with devious skullduggery engineered by your Lady Lasthenia.
Daughters of the Nile
2
High-finance shenanigans are involved, notably skullduggery by the American financier John P Milligan.
The Guardian
3
It never occurred to the connivers that skullduggery went both ways.
Existence
4
Shifting the blame for domestic woes on to foreign skullduggery is well established practice.
Reuters
5
Liberal and conservative justices alike have criticized gerrymandering as a form of partisan skullduggery.
Reuters
6
Lieutenant, despite the sabotage and political skullduggery, I am glad to have you here.
Beginnings
7
It had small-town villains and small-town gossip and, he thought, small-town skullduggery as well.
The last page
8
I'd hold out for twenty percent, Mrs. Pemberton, really make him pay for his skullduggery.
Serena
9
I tell you the hull world's full of skullduggery.
Flowing Gold
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Much of this skullduggery has focused on two little boys, now grown into 20-year-old men.
The Irish Times
11
Engaged upon his skullduggery in or near Rainbow Falls!
Frankenstein: Lost Souls - A Novel
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Some within the multibillion-dollar college-sports industry therefore resort to skullduggery to attract the best student athletes.
Reuters
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And even if Trump did find genuine skullduggery and contest election results, it might not matter.
Wired
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Naturally, he knew far more about computer-intrusion and digital skullduggery than any previously published cyberpunk author.
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontie...
15
But I knew, with a child's instinctive grasp of adult skullduggery, where all this was going.
The Lost Sisterhood
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Discipline and skullduggery will both be needed.
The Irish Times
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Spanish
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Skullduggery through the time