different between skulduggery vs swindle

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

Etymology

Back-formation from swindler, from German Schwindler, from German schwindeln, from Middle High German swindeln, swindelen, from Old High German swintiln, frequentative of the verb swintan; compare Modern German schwindeln, Danish svindel and svindle, Dutch zwindelen and zwendelen, Yiddish ???????? (shvindl), Low German swinneln, Middle English swinden (“to languish, waste away”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sw?nd(?)l/
• Rhymes: -?nd?l

Verb

swindle (third-person singular simple present swindles, present participle swindling, simple past and past participle swindled)

1. (transitive) To defraud.

   The two men swindled the company out of $160,000.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To obtain (money or property) by fraudulent or deceitful methods.

   She swindled more than £200 out of me.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:deceive
• (to be swindled): be sold a pup (idiomatic, British, Australian)
• (to defraud): swizz (informal, mainly British)

Translations

Noun

swindle (plural swindles)

1. An instance of swindling.
2. Anything that is deceptively not what it appears to be.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:deception
• scheme
• swizz (informal, mainly British)

Translations

Anagrams

• Windles, wildens, windles