skulduggery

/skuhl-duhg-uh-ree/US // skʌlˈdʌg ə ri //UK // (skʌlˈdʌɡərɪ) //

恶作剧,诡计多端,诈骗,诈骗罪

Definitions

n.名词 noun

Tax skulduggery is mostly about keeping income off your tax returns (i.e., hiding it from the tax man).
Jon Stewart's parody coverage of the story has relentlessly emphasized not his cable-stealing skulduggery but—his blondness.
Don Loris vexedly tried to contrive some useful skulduggery without the information to base it on.
“It was a simple matter of scientific knowledge and a little skulduggery,” pursued the story-teller obligingly.