skullduggery

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And over six seasons, the series examined the under-explored territory that lay between two world wars—a kind of historical trench in which all manner of skullduggery could fester and bloom.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

If you allow it to go into the second innings, there could be a little bit of skullduggery.

From BBC • May 22, 2025

“If they’re gonna be engaged in skullduggery, you need someone that they’ve got to skulk around,” Schaffer says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2024

To challenge that French postcolonial imperium built by cunning, corruption and covert skullduggery, Moscow needed an operative who could match Jacques Foccart’s legendary mastery of the dirty business of empire, measure for measure.

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2023

Naturally, he knew far more about computer-intrusion and digital skullduggery than any previously published cyberpunk author.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce