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skulduggerynounor skullduggery the use of clever underhanded actions to achieve an endthe company's apparently healthy bottom line was merely an illusion, the result of years of accounting skulduggery artifice, chicane, chicanery, gamesmanship, hanky-panky, jiggery-pokery, jugglery, legerdemain, subterfuge, trickery, wile artfulness, caginess(also cageyness), craftiness, cunning, deviousness, foxiness, oiliness, shadiness, sharpness, shiftiness, shrewdness, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, sneakiness, treachery, underhandedness, wilinesscrookedness, crookery, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, guile, guilefulness, hypocrisy, insincerityfakery, humbuggery, imposture, quackerydirty pool, dirty tricksdesign, plotting, scheming, secrecy, stealth artlessness, forthrightness, guilelessness, ingenuousness, sinceritycandidness, candor, directness, openness, plainness, plainspokenness in 1856 |