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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way [syn: trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery]

Merriam Webster's

or skullduggery noun (plural -geries) Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1867 underhanded or unscrupulous behavior; also a devious device or trick

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (also sculduggery, skullduggery) trickery; unscrupulous behaviour. Etymology: earlier sculduddery, orig. Sc. = unchastity (18th c.: orig. unkn.)

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Skulduggery is behaviour in which someone acts in a dishonest way in order to achieve their aim. (WRITTEN) ...accusations of political skulduggery.

Moby Thesaurus

artifice, chicane, chicanery, collusion, connivance, connivery, conspiracy, covin, dodgery, foul play, machination, pettifoggery, pettifogging, sharp practice, sleight, supercherie, trickery, underhand dealing