skulduggery

Questions about skulduggery

What does skulduggery mean?

skulduggery means "verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way".

How many syllables are in skulduggery?

skulduggery has 4 syllables: skul-dug-ge-ry. The stress falls on "dug". In IPA it is /skəlˈdʌɡɚˌi/.

What is another word for skulduggery?

Close synonyms include trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is skulduggery a common word?

skulduggery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with skulduggery?

9 words rhyme with skulduggery. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.