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thugduggery

noun

Etymology

Blend of thug + skulduggery.

  1. borrowed from sculduddery
  2. compounded as thugduggery — “thug + skulduggery”

Definitions

  1. unscrupulous behavior or illegal machinations.

    • Her thugduggery with the mark has not lessened the suspicion with which the world at large regards her.
    • "Dancers in the Dark," a temperate underworld concoction involves a shooting and some thugduggery but is mostly concerned with the noble and superior love of a “taxi dancer" (Miriam Hopkins) and a saxophone player.
    • A fine example you are to a growing boy, with your lawless advice and thugduggery.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA