skullduggery
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What the Bullmers and company should have known is not to bring a crusading journalist aboard a boat where so much skullduggery is on the itinerary, and so many spoilers in the cargo hold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
“If they’re gonna be engaged in skullduggery, you need someone that they’ve got to skulk around,” Schaffer says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
To challenge that French postcolonial imperium built by cunning, corruption and covert skullduggery, Moscow needed an operative who could match Jacques Foccart’s legendary mastery of the dirty business of empire, measure for measure.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2023
"That's a pretty hefty prize for low-tech skullduggery," Tomasco said.
From Reuters ● May 10, 2023
"Very likely he's up to some skullduggery, sir," Matt opined.
From Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
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