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

The false front is a bit of skullduggery that harks back to a world where conspiracy to escape detection was a part of everyday life.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 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

Naturally, he knew far more about computer-intrusion and digital skullduggery than any previously published cyberpunk author.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce