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Recent Examples of skulduggery From encounters with mermaids, the devil and even Robin Hood to themes of superstition and skulduggery, these short tales are perfect escapism to dip in and out of during your summer vacation. Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025 This year the skulduggery began early and has been raging for week. Tim Spiers, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025 Obviously, such a system is rife with uncertainty, and the history of the process is full of skulduggery, both on the club and player side. Tony Blengino, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025 Climax became the first ever vegan cheesemaker to win a prestigious Good Food award—though dairy complaints caused the prize to be rescinded at the last minute, with shades of the protectionist, legal skulduggery faced by non-dairy milk products. Andrew Rosenblum, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for skulduggery
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skulduggery
Noun
  • But there’s some deception at play.
    Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Stories of similar scenes are sweeping Puerto Rico—raids without court orders, marked by deception and racial profiling, often regardless of legal status.
    Israel Melendez Ayala, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The trial was a kangaroo circus packed with sophism, subterfuge, and courtroom chicanery.
    Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Those concerns were laid bare in the discovery process for the defamation case that Dominion Voting Systems took against Fox over false suggestions of fraud and other chicanery aired by guests on the network.
    Niall Stanage, The Hill, 19 July 2025
Noun
  • The trial was a kangaroo circus packed with sophism, subterfuge, and courtroom chicanery.
    Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Maybe Payton’s running the best preseason subterfuge campaign ever to make Estime look bad on film.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 17 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Corona del Mar used some trickery to take the lead on the ensuing possession.
    Michael Huntley, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Or, some serious internal trickery.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Anyone who doubts his resolve and dedication - especially when Charlie was such a close friend to him- simply is using this extremely sad moment in a disgusting act of political gamesmanship.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • In practice, however, PSLF has been a story of bureaucratic failure and political gamesmanship.
    Leadership Brainery, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Of course, the retort is that this would be irritating and exasperating to be continually deluged with alerts about AI deceptiveness.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • There is a real seriousness to the score — the scheming bad-guy music has the artfulness of Prokofiev, and even the sneaking-around cues have musical integrity and structure.
    Tim Greiving, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In between is a huge chessboard for honing skills of strategy and guile while catching a tan.
    Mark David, Robb Report, 4 Sep. 2025
  • There are no traces of guile, cynicism, arrogance or duplicity.
    John T. Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025

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“Skulduggery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skulduggery. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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