Noun: skullduggery skúl'dú-gu-ree
- Dishonest and underhand behaviour
"The auditors uncovered financial skullduggery in the company's accounts";
- trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky-panky, jiggery-pokery [informal], skulduggery, sculduggery [rare]
Derived forms: skullduggeries
Type of: deceit, deception, misrepresentation
Encyclopedia: Skullduggery