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Significados de skulduggery en inglés

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

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Examples for "trickery"
Examples for "trickery"
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The result is teasingly brilliant and prefigures some of postmodernism's best trickery.
The Guardian
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His trickery and pace on the flank caused Motherwell problems all game.
BBC
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The speed humps and one-way systems added a new layer of trickery.
The water room
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Beatrice studied the document, and in silence canvassed the possibilities of trickery.
In the Year of Jubilee
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This makes the cultivation of the love of trickery the more dangerous.
America, Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat
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And it's the kind of slickness of, that I'm just suspicious of.
The new yorker
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Distracted, he moved by instinct, parting her and stroking through her slickness.
Eve of darkness
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First the martial music, and then the buttery slickness of the announcer.
Foundation and Empire
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We took turns wiping some of the sweat and slickness from us.
The Hyperion Cantos
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But it was different this time: the cold slickness of latex was gone.
The blackstone chronicles
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There is some hocus-pocus about everything you do in the army.
The Iron Game: A Tale of the War
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To this end Mephistopheles devises the elaborate hocus-pocus of the Mothers.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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Sorry about the hocus-pocus, but there is too much at stake.
The Lost Sisterhood
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Otherwise hocus-pocus alone prospers, and he who does forgive it is not forgiven.
The Goose Man
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So the padre does some hocus-pocus and commands the demon to haul ass.
Speaking in Bones
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At rather great expense and with devious skullduggery engineered by your Lady Lasthenia.
Daughters of the Nile
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High-finance shenanigans are involved, notably skullduggery by the American financier John P Milligan.
The Guardian
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It never occurred to the connivers that skullduggery went both ways.
Existence
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Shifting the blame for domestic woes on to foreign skullduggery is well established practice.
Reuters
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Liberal and conservative justices alike have criticized gerrymandering as a form of partisan skullduggery.
Reuters
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Are we sure the third wasn't also into the hanky panky?
Storm Front
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You mean you want an explanation of this hanky panky.
Winnie Childs, the Shop Girl
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There is some hanky panky with a seedy actor whom she has never much liked.
The Irish Times
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You can leave the two of them alone and you never have to worry about any hanky panky.
Are you there, vodka? it's me, chelsea
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No hanky panky going on so he squeezed into the room he had a empty suitcase in his hand.
Further adventures
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Hip-hop by way of Johannesburg jive, Mexican Mariachi and hillbilly jiggery-pokery.
The Irish Times
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Hadn't there been some jiggery-pokery with his books in London?
The Man Who Knew
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But that doesn't stop a bit of gay jiggery-pokery.
Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
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And here's your present, all exactly as you asked this time and no jiggery-pokery to it.
Knight of the Demon Queen
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His fiscal jiggery-pokery has been fully exposed.
The Guardian
Uso de skulduggery en inglés
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If high-end financial skulduggery were that straightforward we'd all be at it.
The Irish Times
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I can't remember the last time I read claims of such old-fashioned skulduggery.
The Irish Times
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Tells about the patent war and other skulduggery practiced by Shaffner.
The new yorker
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Like the best-laid skulduggery, it's hard to see how this one can fail.
The Guardian
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In the legal blogosphere there were accusations of old boys' networks and skulduggery.
The Guardian
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He looked happy, and he never looks happy unless he's planning some skulduggery!
The Pirates of Ersatz
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Thar's some skulduggery goin' on down here, or my name ain't Nick Brower.
Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective; Or, The Crime of the Midnigh...
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Concrete policy changes may follow, and alleged financial skulduggery could yet produce more fallout.
Reuters
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The manager used heavy sarcasm in addressing theories of skulduggery.
The Irish Times
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This pale 13th century edifice hosted many sieges and the usual soap-opera style skulduggery.
The Irish Times
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In other words, accounting sleight-of-hand, witchery, trickery, sorcery, or skulduggery.
A colossal failure of common sense: the inside story of the coll...
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There was so much skulduggery going on, the top four finishers were all disqualified.
The South African
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Boardwalk's fourth season, just out on DVD, is when things go beyond booze-peddling skulduggery.
The Guardian
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Another miner, known as the Presbyterian, added: There's some skulduggery in it, I guess.
Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 4.
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That can be a euphemism for all sorts of skulduggery.
The Irish Times
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Curly wigs and straining bustiers; political shenanigans and sexual skulduggery.
The Irish Times
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Skulduggery a través del tiempo