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1 skulduggery -- rank: 1000

skulduggery definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: verbal misrepresentation ... way [syn: trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery] Merriam Webster's or skullduggery noun (plural -geries) Etymology ... 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 ...

2 trickery -- rank: 358

... way [syn: trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery] 2: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually ... red herring, roguishness, ruse, scheme, sharp practice, shift, shiftiness, shrewdness, skulduggery, sleight, sleight of hand, slyness, sportiveness, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, supercherie ...

3 skullduggery -- rank: 358

... way [syn: trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery] Merriam Webster's noun see skulduggery

4 hanky panky -- rank: 226

... way [syn: trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery] Moby Thesaurus adulterous affair, adultery, affair, amour, conjuration, cuckoldry ...

5 Machination -- rank: 226

... political influence, practice, rigging, ruse, scheme, schemery, scheming, sharp practice, skulduggery, sleight, stratagem, supercherie, tactical maneuvers, tactics, trick, trickery, underhand dealing ...

6 foul play -- rank: 226

... murder, perfidiousness, perfidy, pettifoggery, pettifogging, purge, purging, removal, sharp practice, skulduggery, sleight, supercherie, thuggee, thuggery, thuggism, treacherousness, treachery, trickery, underhand dealing ...

7 Watergate -- rank: 226

... 1972 Date: 1973 a scandal usually involving abuses of office, skulduggery, and a cover-up Oxford Reference Dictionary n. 1 a ...

8 sculduggery -- rank: 226

sculduggery definitions Oxford Reference Dictionary var. of SKULDUGGERY.

9 slickness -- rank: 226

... way [syn: trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery] 2: a kind of fluent easy superficiality; "the glibness ...

10 Pettifoggery -- rank: 226

... parrying, pettifogging, prevarication, pussyfooting, quibbling, sharp practice, shifting, shuffling, sidestepping, skulduggery, sleight, subterfuge, supercherie, tergiversation, trichoschistism, trickery, underhand dealing

11 jiggery-pokery -- rank: 226

... way [syn: trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery] Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: probably alteration of Scots ...

12 hocus-pocus -- rank: 226

... way [syn: trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery] Merriam Webster's I. noun Etymology: probably from hocus ...

13 Sleight -- rank: 226

... red herring, ruse, scheme, scurvy trick, sharp practice, shift, skill, skulduggery, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge ...

14 Covin -- rank: 226

... pettifogging, plot, plotting, practice, rigging, scheme, schemery, scheming, sharp practice, skulduggery, sleight, stratagem, supercherie, trick, trickery, underhand dealing, underplot, web of ...

15 Conspiracy -- rank: 226

... ruse, saprophytism, scheme, schemery, scheming, sedition, sharp practice, shift, simultaneity, skulduggery, sleight, solidification, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, supercherie, symbiosis, synchronism, syncretism, syndication ...