This kind of partisan skulduggery has no place in a government agency.
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Skulduggery
//skʌlˈdʌɡəɹi//
Synonyms for "skulduggery" (33 found)
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Closest matches (7)
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Related words (16)
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1 entriesderived
2 entriesetymologically related_to
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7 entriesTranslations
34 translations across 17 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- измама noun (devious device or trick)
- мошеничество noun (dishonest, underhanded, or unscrupulous activities or behaviour)
Danish
1 entries- svindelnummer noun (devious device or trick)
Dutch
1 entries- bedriegerij noun (devious device or trick)
Estonian
3 entries- alatus noun (devious device or trick)
- sigadus noun (devious device or trick)
- valskus noun (devious device or trick)
Finnish
3 entries- hämäys noun (dishonest, underhanded, or unscrupulous activities or behaviour)
- kepponen noun (devious device or trick)
- petos noun (devious device or trick)
French
1 entries- entourloupe noun (devious device or trick)
German
2 entries- Hinterlist noun (devious device or trick)
- Mauschelei noun (devious device or trick)
Icelandic
4 entries- fláræði noun (devious device or trick)
- leynimakk noun (devious device or trick)
- prettir noun (devious device or trick)
- undirferli noun (devious device or trick)
Macedonian
3 entries- далавера noun (devious device or trick)
- далавера noun (dishonest, underhanded, or unscrupulous activities or behaviour)
- ујдурма noun (devious device or trick)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- skurkestrek noun (devious device or trick)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- skurkestrek noun (devious device or trick)
Polish
2 entries- machlojka noun (devious device or trick)
- machlojka noun (dishonest, underhanded, or unscrupulous activities or behaviour)
Portuguese
1 entries- trapaça noun (devious device or trick)
Romanian
3 entries- escrocherie noun (devious device or trick)
- păcăleală noun (devious device or trick)
- înșelătorie noun (devious device or trick)
Russian
3 entries- жу́льничество noun (devious device or trick)
- моше́нничество noun (devious device or trick)
- надува́тельство noun (devious device or trick)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- prevara noun (devious device or trick)
- превара noun (devious device or trick)
Swedish
1 entries- skurkstreck noun (devious device or trick)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
A private company cannot get away with a skulduggery of that sort. Once it has paid out its money for taxes, it cannot reach into the public treasury and get it back and apply it on its amortization account.
Source: wiktionary
And you, O student, might do worse than to investigate the assorted sculduggeries of this obscure trio: […]
Source: wiktionary
The reports in his briefase had no bearing on war, peace, the dope traffic, the hydrogen bomb, or any of the other international skulduggeries that he associated with pursuers, men in trench coats, and wet sidewalks.
Source: wiktionary
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