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Skullduggery is an English word with synonyms like trickery or slickness. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Skullduggery in a sentence

Skullduggery meaning

US spelling of skulduggery.

Synonyms of Skullduggery

trickery hocus-pocus slickness hanky panky jiggery-pokery skulduggery misrepresentation deceit deception

Related words

Other words often associated with Skullduggery or its synonyms:

falsehood untruth falsity dissembling falsification dissimulation slick fraudulence conjuration glibness guile trick

Using Skullduggery

  • The main meaning on this page is: US spelling of skulduggery.
  • Useful related words include: trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky.
  • In the example corpus, skullduggery often appears in combinations such as: their skullduggery, skullduggery in.

Context around Skullduggery

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 26.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 7 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 11 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

similar 1× adopt 1× political 1× podcast 1× financial 1×

Often after:

understand 1× inside 1× practiced 1×

Sentence patterns with Skullduggery

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

and financial skullduggery 1× at the skullduggery practiced by 1× cover their skullduggery 1× democrat political skullduggery to get 1× news podcast skullduggery in april 1× prevention of skullduggery it is 1× that his skullduggery in ukraine 1× to adopt skullduggery and put 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

given his weak 1× he was devoted 1× now the da 1× the birds adapted 1× the general consensus 1× the question remains 1×

Common sentence endings:

and financial skullduggery 1× biden s candidacy 1× cover their skullduggery 1× disprove the charge 1× has seemingly vanished 1× he considered friends 1×

Words around Skullduggery

Just before it in the word index:

skullcap 10 skullcandy 8 skull 860 skulking 6 skulk 4 skule 6

Just after it in the word index:

skulle 3 skullgirls 2 skulls 178 skulltulas 2 skully 4 skuna 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

aadi 15 aakash 15 aayush 15 abcs 15 aberdonian 15 abhi 15

Corpus analysis for Skullduggery

  • In this selection, "skullduggery" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, similar, adopt, political, understand, inside and practiced stand out and add context to how "skullduggery" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include and financial skullduggery and at the skullduggery practiced by. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "skullduggery" sits close to words such as aadi, aakash and aayush, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with skullduggery

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Two types of highest risk factors are sexual indiscretion and financial skullduggery. (12 words)

The question remains: How long are Albertans going to put up with this skullduggery? (14 words)

Though they pretend to care about democracy all we see is more effort to cover their skullduggery. (17 words)

Longer example sentences

To wit, an "assessment" that the Russian state caused some Democrat political skullduggery to get into the public domain based on "classified" evidence that they are not sharing, but if made public would easily disprove the charge. (37 words)

But make no mistake, when you are asked to pull the trigger on someone in politics or undertake some skullduggery, understand that invoking a line from The Godfather doesn’t get you some dispensation. (34 words)

She can have the best of both political worlds by denouncing Trump reminding all of Joe Biden’s supporters that his skullduggery in Ukraine while part of the Obama administration destroys his “electability” argument. (34 words)

Question examples

The question remains: How long are Albertans going to put up with this skullduggery? (14 words)

Example sentences (12)

But make no mistake, when you are asked to pull the trigger on someone in politics or undertake some skullduggery, understand that invoking a line from The Godfather doesn’t get you some dispensation.

Now, the DA leader, John Steenhuisen, says he has uncovered similar skullduggery inside the Department of Agriculture, in which R500 million earmarked for an animal vaccine production facility has seemingly vanished.

The birds adapted well to the new scheme, which allowed them to spread east into new territory, where songbirds weren't used to their skullduggery — which could now be concentrated instead of scattered.

The general consensus is that more eyes watching over the Democratic process is better for the prevention of skullduggery; it is sad that the self proclaimed enigma didn’t see it that way.

The question remains: How long are Albertans going to put up with this skullduggery?

Though they pretend to care about democracy all we see is more effort to cover their skullduggery.

Given his weak parliamentary base, the only way he can drive Brexit through is to adopt skullduggery, and put his opponents on the back foot – not least of all ‘rebel’ Tory MPs.

He was devoted to truth and suffered real pain at the skullduggery practiced by many he considered friends.

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She can have the best of both political worlds by denouncing Trump reminding all of Joe Biden’s supporters that his skullduggery in Ukraine while part of the Obama administration destroys his “electability” argument.

To wit, an "assessment" that the Russian state caused some Democrat political skullduggery to get into the public domain based on "classified" evidence that they are not sharing, but if made public would easily disprove the charge.

Y., told the Yahoo News podcast Skullduggery in April that while she would "support whoever the Democratic nominee is," she was not enthusiastic about Biden's candidacy.

Two types of highest risk factors are sexual indiscretion and financial skullduggery.

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Common combinations with skullduggery

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "skullduggery" in a sentence?
An example: "But make no mistake, when you are asked to pull the trigger on someone in politics or undertake some skullduggery, understand that invoking a line from The Godfather doesn’t get you some dispensation." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "skullduggery" from authentic English texts.
What does "skullduggery" mean?
Skullduggery means: US spelling of skulduggery.
What are synonyms of "skullduggery"?
Common synonyms of "skullduggery" include: trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, misrepresentation, deceit. Plus 1 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "skullduggery" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "skullduggery", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.