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Meanings of skullduggery in inglês

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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
      2
      His trickery and pace on the flank caused Motherwell problems all game.
      BBC
      3
      The speed humps and one-way systems added a new layer of trickery.
      The water room
      4
      Beatrice studied the document, and in silence canvassed the possibilities of trickery.
      In the Year of Jubilee
      5
      This makes the cultivation of the love of trickery the more dangerous.
      America, Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat
      1
      If high-end financial skulduggery were that straightforward we'd all be at it.
      The Irish Times
      2
      I can't remember the last time I read claims of such old-fashioned skulduggery.
      The Irish Times
      3
      Tells about the patent war and other skulduggery practiced by Shaffner.
      The new yorker
      4
      Like the best-laid skulduggery, it's hard to see how this one can fail.
      The Guardian
      5
      In the legal blogosphere there were accusations of old boys' networks and skulduggery.
      The Guardian
      1
      And it's the kind of slickness of, that I'm just suspicious of.
      The new yorker
      2
      Distracted, he moved by instinct, parting her and stroking through her slickness.
      Eve of darkness
      3
      First the martial music, and then the buttery slickness of the announcer.
      Foundation and Empire
      4
      We took turns wiping some of the sweat and slickness from us.
      The Hyperion Cantos
      5
      But it was different this time: the cold slickness of latex was gone.
      The blackstone chronicles
      1
      There is some hocus-pocus about everything you do in the army.
      The Iron Game: A Tale of the War
      2
      To this end Mephistopheles devises the elaborate hocus-pocus of the Mothers.
      The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
      3
      Sorry about the hocus-pocus, but there is too much at stake.
      The Lost Sisterhood
      4
      Otherwise hocus-pocus alone prospers, and he who does forgive it is not forgiven.
      The Goose Man
      5
      So the padre does some hocus-pocus and commands the demon to haul ass.
      Speaking in Bones
      1
      Are we sure the third wasn't also into the hanky panky?
      Storm Front
      2
      You mean you want an explanation of this hanky panky.
      Winnie Childs, the Shop Girl
      3
      There is some hanky panky with a seedy actor whom she has never much liked.
      The Irish Times
      4
      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
      5
      No hanky panky going on so he squeezed into the room he had a empty suitcase in his hand.
      Further adventures
      1
      Hip-hop by way of Johannesburg jive, Mexican Mariachi and hillbilly jiggery-pokery.
      The Irish Times
      2
      Hadn't there been some jiggery-pokery with his books in London?
      The Man Who Knew
      3
      But that doesn't stop a bit of gay jiggery-pokery.
      Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
      4
      And here's your present, all exactly as you asked this time and no jiggery-pokery to it.
      Knight of the Demon Queen
      5
      His fiscal jiggery-pokery has been fully exposed.
      The Guardian
      Usage of skullduggery in inglês
      1
      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
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      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
      10
      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
      13
      And even if Trump did find genuine skullduggery and contest election results, it might not matter.
      Wired
      14
      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...
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      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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      Skullduggery through the time