skullduggery
- n verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
- Where public discussion is not free and political dissent is throttled, skullduggery is bound to take root.
- To counter the urge of any criminal to turn on his comrades and inform authorities of their skullduggery,criminal societies often keep hostages.
- When the government sequestered the leader of the opposition's property, cries of political skullduggery from the opposition could not be far behind.