scullduggery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] I discovered this particular one to be merely a shallow recess in the limestone, nowhere reëntrant to a distance of over forty feet, of the general proportions of a tin oven, and transacting an immense business of mystery (or what they call, as far west as this, "Shenandigan" and "Scullduggery") with those who gape at it from below, on the capital of a dark, overgrown portal, as big as the cave itself."
- "Reverting to the Lübeck plan, one need perhaps shed no tears for the KGB, and the GRU (the Soviet CIA), deprived of their preferred choice as a scullduggery base of Kiel, where the Federal German navy has an installation."