skulduggery

skulduggery englannista suomeksi

1. sumutus

0. Substantiivi

1. kepponen, petos

2. hämäys

skulduggery englanniksi

1. A devious device or trick.

(synonyms)

2. (quote-journal)

3. (quote-book) and (w)|title2=Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker|edition2=paperback|location2=New York, N.Y.|publisher2=Modern Library|year2=2001|pages2=4–5|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=hPY8ZA3JxKsC&pg=PA5|isbn2=978-0-375-75752-5|passage=The reports in his briefase had no bearing on war, peace, the dope traffic, the hydrogen bomb, or any of the other international skulduggeries that he associated with pursuers, men in trench coats, and wet sidewalks.

4. (quote-book)

5. Dishonest, underhanded, or unscrupulous activities or behaviour.

(antonyms)

6. (quote-book)|date=27 July 1857|year_published=1858|page=126|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=9thIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA126|column=1|oclc=32834085|passage=And I have another reason which I will express to my St Paul friends, and that is, that they have always been controlled in their political action here by a class of men who have always some traps set for the country members—by men who are always up to this border ruffian kind of trickery—this kind of skullduggery, as it is called in Minnesota. And now St. Paul allows herself to be controlled by these same border ruffian politicians.

7. (quote-book)|year=1870|page=385|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=PN9CAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA385|oclc=984521771|passage=(..) I discovered this particular one to be merely a shallow recess in the limestone, nowhere reëntrant to a distance of over forty feet, of the general proportions of a tin oven, and transacting an immense business of mystery (or what they call, as far west as this, "''Shenandigan''" and "''Scullduggery''") with those who gape at it from below, on the capital of a dark, overgrown portal, as big as the cave itself.

8. (quote-book)|date=3 June 1873|volume=I|page=163|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=j_cndE-MFJgC&pg=PA163|column=2|oclc=1039358341|passage=Mr. BURNS wanted to hear from the gentleman from Logan on his amendment, to see whether there was any "sculduggery" about it.

9. (quote-hansard)