different between skulduggery vs deceitful

English

Etymology

An alteration of Scots sculduddery, sculdudrie (“adultery, unchaste behaviour; obscenity”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sk?l?d????i/, /sk?l?d???i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sk?l?d????i/, /?sk?l?d???i/, /?sk?l?d??-/
• Hyphenation: skul?dug?ge?ry

Noun

skulduggery (countable and uncountable, plural skulduggeries)

1. (countable) A devious device or trick.

   Synonyms: ruse, strategem, subterfuge
2. (uncountable) Dishonest, underhanded, or unscrupulous activities or behaviour.

   Synonyms: dishonesty, jiggery-pokery, subterfuge, thugduggery, trickery, underhandedness, unscrupulousness

   Antonyms: honesty, probity

Alternative forms

• sculduggery
• scullduggery
• skullduggery

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:deception

Derived terms

• skulduggerous, skullduggerous
• thugduggery

Translations

References

Further reading

• skullduggery (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• deceiptful (obsolete)
• deceiptfull (obsolete)
• deceitfull (archaic)

Etymology

deceit +? -ful

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??si?tf?l/, /-fl?/

Adjective

deceitful (comparative more deceitful, superlative most deceitful)

1. Deliberately misleading or cheating.
   • c. 1590, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, [Act II, scene vii]:

     All the?e are ?eruants to deceitfull men.
2. Deceptive, two-faced.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:deceptive

Translations