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thugduggery

thugduggery noun: unscrupulous behavior or illegal machinations.

Noun

thugduggery (uncountable)

  1. unscrupulous behavior or illegal machinations.
    • Her thugduggery with the mark has not lessened the suspicion with which the world at large regards her.1923, The Magazine of Wall Street and Business Analyst
    • "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.1932, The New Yorker - Volume 8, page 52

Origin of thugduggery

Blend of thug + skulduggery.

Questions about thugduggery

What does thugduggery mean?
Thugduggery means unscrupulous behavior or illegal machinations.
What part of speech is thugduggery?
Thugduggery is a noun.

Words near thugduggery in the dictionary

  1. thug
  2. thug it out
  3. thug life
  4. thug lives
  5. thugdom
  6. thugduggery
  7. thugee
  8. thugees
  9. thugess
  10. thugesses
  11. thugette

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