AND I QUOTE

skulduggery

PRONUNCIATION:

(skuhl-DUHG-uh-ree) 

MEANING:

noun: Underhand dealing: trickery, bribery, etc.

ETYMOLOGY:

An American coinage, apparently from the alteration of Scots sculduddery (fornication, obscenity). Earliest documented use: 1867.

USAGE:

"In the 1980s [the Vatican Bank] was accused of involvement in financial skulduggery and responsibility for the still-mysterious death of a prominent Italian banker, Roberto Calvi."
God's Bankers; The Economist (London, UK); Jul 7, 2012.