skulduggery 
☆ skul·dug·gery (skul dug′ər ē)
noun
Informal sneaky, dishonest behavior; trickery
Etymology: obs. Scot sculdudrie < ?
Adjective modifier
- political: Notes At one level this is a story of betrayal, of political skulduggery and of religiously-motivated violence.
- such: Byrd is, of course, persuaded that Uri's friends would never take part in such skulduggery.
- financial: Via the Vatican bank, Marcinkus had engaged in a vast amount of financial skulduggery.
- possible: Yvonne Ridley's account of a missing FMD:O vial was not the only report of possible biological skulduggery.
My aim all along has been (in Ezra Pound's term) the most drastic desuetization of Scottish life and letters, and, inparticular, thede-Tibetanizationofthe Highlands and Islands, and getting rid of the whole gang of high mucky-mucks, famous fatheads, old wives of both sexes, stuffed shirts, hollow men with headpieces stuffed with straw, bird-wits, lookers-under-beds, trained seals, creeping Jesuses, Scots Wha Ha'evers, village idiots, policemen, leaders of white-mouse factions and noted connoisseurs of bread and butter, glorified gangsters, and what 'Billy' Phelps calls Medlar Novelists (the medlar being a fruit that becomes rotten before it is ripe),Commercial Calvinists, makers of 'noises like a turnip', and all the touts and toadies and lickspittles o the English Ascendancy, and their infernal women-folk, and all their skunkoil skulduggery.
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