Definitions
Etymologies
- Probably alteration of Scots sculduddery, obscenity, fornication. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“More skullduggery from the folks that run the city.”
“I have no firm evidence of McCain skullduggery, but I can see plenty of suspiciously fortuitous timing, squirming, squiggling, and on again off again events.”
“Since pirates are infamous for their loyalty to no one, then some skullduggery is built into the nature of the movie.”
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“No skullduggery is necessary for BHO to have a valid cert on file in HI that also indicating a foreign birth: there’s a Hawaiian law – on the books since 1982 – allowing those born outside HI to get valid HI certs.”
“If Ned lost a few votes from voters who got the impression on the final day that he was up to some kind of skullduggery then maybe (maybe) Joe lost a few from losing his email contacts.”
“They're all finagling, fighting and using whatever kind of skullduggery to get a chunk of and eventual control of the oil wealth.”
“Let's see ... you got your "positive things" and you got your "negative things" ... but now someone has gone and craftily placed these two things side-by-side on a webpage, so obviously they must be engaging in some kind of skullduggery?”
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“On some level, to greater or lesser degrees, patients are aware of this kind of skullduggery (and it is skullduggery).”
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“The board and donors, she says, have willfully overlooked the "skullduggery" that has beset the national office since Mr. Romero's installation as executive director in 2002.”
“Was this an unintentional screw up by a well-meaning Obama staffer trying to clean up a document so it was easier to see online or evidence of some kind of skullduggery?”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘skullduggery’.
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Test Prep or Just for fun
Building a list for standardized test prep or just for learning some new words! Please add any words that you feel are important for the SAT/GRE/GMAT etc...
throng, morass, parley, facile, kismet, strife, jetsam, carrion, annex, harbinger, vestige, surreptitious and 575 more...
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Very Silly Words
A list of very silly sounding words, as well as words that are fun to say
badot, gardyloo, dingbat, gaffer, kine, haberdashery, forsooth, whey-faced, hoddypeak, brouhaha, widdershins, decemnovenarianize and 115 more...
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JURI - crimes and offences
Don't commit any of these if you can
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Naresh_Special
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Dirty Deeds, Acts & Villainous Arcana
Villains, evildoers, and the wonderful words to describe them.
putsch, internecine, galère, stygian, infernal, opprobrium, anathema, bruit, scurrility, mulct, misanthropic, invective and 102 more...
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JURI - courtroom speak
Legal glossary with special focus on courtroom vocabulary
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
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Worldly words what work in wonderful ...
I like words! They're great. They have so many meanings, and the slightest changes to spelling, grammar, punctuation and syntax etcetera can make a world of difference of inference. See? When was t...
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xulilux's list
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HollieGolightly's list
indigo, flippant, quaint, ebullience, subterfuge, conspicuous, surreptitiously, kodachrome, doppelganger, hullabaloo, nabob, motley and 21 more...
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Chelsea's list
acedia, braggadocio, abnegation, equanimity, flibbertigibbet, edentulous, debonair, hypnotic, pococurante, logorrhea, euonym, feckless and 23 more...
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generationnext's Words
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
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Tweets
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mollusque Derived from sculduddery, which originally meant fornication or adultery (see World Wide Words). The spelling skullduggery is prevalent online, so this is a good example of spelling capture, influenced by skull, which isn't related. Jun 5, 2008
asativum The latter is underhanded behavior. The former is underhanded behavior using defunct crania. Jun 5, 2008
plethora skullduggery vs skulduggery.
Discuss. Jun 5, 2008