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skulduggery

noun

1 skulduggery

Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way.

synonyms: hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery.

is a specific kind of: deceit, deception, misrepresentation.

derivation: flim-flam, fob, fox, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, trick | crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily.

Dutch: gesjoemel, hocus-pocus
Polish: kuglarstwo, cygaństwo

Moby thesaurus: artifice, chicane, chicanery, collusion, connivance, connivery, conspiracy, covin, dodgery, foul play, machination, pettifoggery, pettifogging, sharp practice, sleight, supercherie, trickery, underhand dealing.

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