skullduggery

Questions about skullduggery

What does skullduggery mean?

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

How many syllables are in skullduggery?

skullduggery has 4 syllables: skull-dug-ge-ry. The stress falls on "dug".

What is another word for skullduggery?

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 skullduggery a common word?

skullduggery 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.