skullduggery

Example Sentences

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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

Many of us like to think we could handle the pressures and skullduggery of being a traitor in the remote Scottish castle.

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2025

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

He would be cagey enough to stay ignorant of any overt strife or any other skullduggery that could be laid at his door.

From Highways in Hiding by Smith, George Oliver