skullduggery

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And over six seasons, the series examined the under-explored territory that lay between two world wars—a kind of historical trench in which all manner of skullduggery could fester and bloom.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

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

“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

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