;Posted on 06/18/2014 5:35:18 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, June 18, 2014-- skulduggery
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
skulduggery [skuhl-duhg-uh-ree]
noun
1. dishonorable proceedings; mean dishonesty or trickery: bribery, graft, and other such skulduggery.
2. an instance of dishonest or deceitful behavior; trick.
Origin: 1856, apparently an alteration of Scottish sculdudrie "adultery" (1713), sculduddery "bawdry, obscenity" (1821), a euphemism of uncertain origin.
Related forms:
Alternate spellings: skullduggery, sculduggery, scullduggery.
Plural: skul•dug•ger•ies.
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
They are so funny, how they think everyone else’s toy is better! It reminds me of my chickens. One will find a beetle and take off running with the others in hot pursuit.
It wasn’t just skullduggery that did this school in:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3169320/posts
This is intensely personal, because I have friends who work there.
Well, he gave Midget’s mouse up after she refused to take the bait, and get held on the floor and tormented by him, so he wandered over to the kitchen window, and she laid down on her mouse.
Yeti boy carried off a lizard that got in once, and the other two were running after...
I see Obastard is us to his usual skullduggery with pulling the trademark right from the Washington Redskins. I think they should change the name in his honor to the Washington Thinskins. Stopping here because anything else I would add would get me banned.
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Being Jewish and growing up in NYC (the Bronx), I am very familiar with Yeshiva University. I didn’t realize they were in the Madoff crapper. And it looks like their other investments didn’t do well either. Odd, for my people. :)
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Clearly, the biggest problems this country faces are global warming (I mean “Climate Change”), prejudice against the transgendered, and the nicknames of football teams.
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