|  skulduggery 
 
 verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
 • Syn:
 trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skullduggery
 • Derivationally related forms:
 slick (for: slickness), trick (for: trickery)
 • Hypernyms:
 misrepresentation, deceit, deception
 
 
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