skuldugger

present singular third person skulduggers · participle present skulduggering · participle past skulduggered · past skulduggered

1. rareTo partake in skulduggery (dishonest, underhanded, or unscrupulous activities or behaviour).

   Only a few of the men and women who skulk and skuldugger their way through the pages of his bestseller are not certified members of the power elite.

   1996 May 1, Jonathan Kirsch, “Not the Usual Suspects You Find in Murder Mysteries”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page E5, column 2

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   I am not a man to waste energy in hurt feelings. "I assure you I have no intention of skulduggering around to learn the new receipt," I told him. "It was only a suggestion."

   1979, S. S. Rafferty, Fatal Flourishes, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 263

   At his first cabinet meeting he placed before him on the table a pearl-handled pistol. He organised, skulduggered, bullied, flattered and finally got the numbers for his Commonwealth Bank (by his own proud confession) with a forged proxy vote.

   1997, Bob Ellis, Goodbye Jerusalem: Night Thoughts of a Labor Outsider, Sydney, NSW: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 565

plural skulduggers

1. misspellingMisspelling of skulduggerer.

   I mean, give me a break. NSA guys and gals don't do secret missions or any of that crap. Hollywood sometimes portrays them as furtive skulduggers, but that just goes to show what happens when you give guys like Oliver Stone a camera and a license to interpret the universe.

   2001, Brian Haig, Secret Sanction: A Novel, London: Orion, →ISBN, page 191