"skullduggery" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: skullduggeries [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} skullduggery (countable and uncountable, plural skullduggeries)
  1. US spelling of skulduggery Tags: US, alt-of, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: skulduggery
    Sense id: en-skullduggery-en-noun-sumOwV3p Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "text": "And I have another reason which I will express to my St Paul friends, and that is, that they have always been controlled in their political action here by a class of men who have always some traps set for the country members—by men who are always up to this border ruffian kind of trickery—this kind of skullduggery, as it is called in Minnesota. And now St. Paul allows herself to be controlled by these same border ruffian politicians.",
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          "text": "The crew manager collects all the money from his workers. They operate in more or less close formation, with the manager lurking around the edges, riding herd in his car or walking between cover points. Thus, the solicitor has little chance for skullduggery. His receipts are numbered and he has to account for them.",
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