"sculduggery" meaning in English

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Noun

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

Inflected forms

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