Meanings
- uncountableunscrupulous behavior or illegal machinations.
A fine example you are to a growing boy, with your lawless advice and thugduggery.
2004, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Ojo in Oz2 more examples
Her thugduggery with the mark has not lessened the suspicion with which the world at large regards her.
1923, The Magazine of Wall Street and Business Analyst"Dancers in the Dark," a temperate underworld concoction involves a shooting and some thugduggery but is mostly concerned with the noble and superior love of a “taxi dancer" (Miriam Hopkins) and a saxophone player.
1932, The New Yorker - Volume 8, page 52
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Blend of thug + skulduggery.
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