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English
Noun
sculduggery (countable and uncountable, plural sculduggeries)
- Alternative spelling of skulduggery
1873 June 3, Barnabas Burns, J. G. Adel, official reporter, “Fourteenth Day”, in Official Report of the Proceedings and Debates of the Third Constitutional Convention of Ohio, Assembled in the City of Columbus, on Tuesday, May 13, 1873, volume I, Cleveland, Oh.: W. S. Robison & Co., printers to the Convention, , →OCLC, page 163, column 2:Mr. BURNS wanted to hear from the gentleman from Logan on his amendment, to see whether there was any "sculduggery" about it.
1941, Norman Cousins, editor, Saturday Review, volume 24, New York, N.Y.: Saturday Review Associates, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:And you, O student, might do worse than to investigate the assorted sculduggeries of this obscure trio: […]