Meaning of scullduggery | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of skulduggery.

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Examples

“[…] 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.”

“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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