Get to know Skulduggery better with 7 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like trickery or slickness.
Skulduggery in a sentence
Skulduggery meaning
- A devious device or trick.
- Dishonest, underhanded, or unscrupulous activities or behaviour.
Synonyms of Skulduggery
Using Skulduggery
- The main meaning on this page is: A devious device or trick. | Dishonest, underhanded, or unscrupulous activities or behaviour.
- Useful related words include: trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky.
- In the example corpus, skulduggery often appears in combinations such as: no skulduggery, of skulduggery.
Context around Skulduggery
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Skulduggery
- In this selection, "skulduggery" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sneaking stand out and add context to how "skulduggery" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include absolutely no skulduggery and accusations of skulduggery and cyber. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "skulduggery" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with skulduggery
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The election commission deputy chairman, Emmanuel Magade, told a news conference there had been “absolutely no skulduggery”. (17 words)
In both instances the speakers of their respective houses should have stopped these episodes of legislating by skulduggery. (18 words)
A lot of people who work at the CIA say it's nothing like the movies — no skulduggery, sneaking around or disguises. (22 words)
A man who publicly colludes with a hostile foreign power to subvert an election, and then lies about and obstructs justice to conceal his skulduggery should have been immediately impeached and removed from office. (34 words)
Kári “The Disciple of Doom” Árnason teaches Diego Costa what a dirty trick is and the Brazilian-born forward retreats to the pit of skulduggery from whence he came. (29 words)
But the tranquil setting has been rocked by accusations of skulduggery and cyber warfare over the £27million redevelopment of the club’s Grade II-listed West Wing. (27 words)
Example sentences (7)
A lot of people who work at the CIA say it's nothing like the movies — no skulduggery, sneaking around or disguises.
A man who publicly colludes with a hostile foreign power to subvert an election, and then lies about and obstructs justice to conceal his skulduggery should have been immediately impeached and removed from office.
In both instances the speakers of their respective houses should have stopped these episodes of legislating by skulduggery.
But the tranquil setting has been rocked by accusations of skulduggery and cyber warfare over the £27million redevelopment of the club’s Grade II-listed West Wing.
Kári “The Disciple of Doom” Árnason teaches Diego Costa what a dirty trick is and the Brazilian-born forward retreats to the pit of skulduggery from whence he came.
The election commission deputy chairman, Emmanuel Magade, told a news conference there had been “absolutely no skulduggery”.
There is skulduggery in leeching: when I ask Carl if there is any corporate spying, he won’t answer, except to say: “We don’t need to.
Common combinations with skulduggery
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- no skulduggery 2×
- of skulduggery 2×