"scullduggery" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: scullduggeries [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} scullduggery (countable and uncountable, plural scullduggeries)
  1. Alternative spelling of skulduggery Tags: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: skulduggery
    Sense id: en-scullduggery-en-noun-S7tvoFfA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "[…] I discovered this particular one to be merely a shallow recess in the limestone, nowhere reëntrant to a distance of over forty feet, of the general proportions of a tin oven, and transacting an immense business of mystery (or what they call, as far west as this, \"Shenandigan\" and \"Scullduggery\") with those who gape at it from below, on the capital of a dark, overgrown portal, as big as the cave itself.",
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          "text": "Reverting to the Lübeck plan, one need perhaps shed no tears for the KGB, and the GRU (the Soviet CIA), deprived of their preferred choice as a scullduggery base of Kiel, where the Federal German navy has an installation.",
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