skulduggery, chicanery, shenanigans, subterfuge, malfeasance, machinations, gamesmanship, underhandedness, dirty tricks, nefariousness, deviousness, venality, perfidy, intrigue, treachery, duplicity, fraudulence, improprieties, tomfoolery, imbroglios, jobbery, shadiness, mendacity, trickery, thievery, deception, hanky panky, roguery, misdeeds, dishonesty, crookedness, tawdriest, obfuscation, politicking, doublespeak, cronyism, knavery, deceit, corruptness, manipulations, dissembling, backstabbing, illegalities, sleaziness, collusion, espionage, ineptitude, conspiracies, hypocrisy, boondoggling, bribery, high jinks, nastiness, incompetence, sleights, thuggery, gimmickry, hackery, rascality, sleaze, hijinks, peccadillo, opportunism, scandals, shamelessness, doubletalk, legerdemain, sophistry, coverup, doings, idiocy, cheating, fiascoes, chumminess, revisionism, stratagems, unscrupulousness, villainy, unseemliness, boneheadedness, foolery, posturing, officialdom, disingenuity, follies, foolishness, cravenness, buffoonery, illegality, misdealing, arrogance, furtiveness, stupidity, farce, scoundrels, disinformation, malevolence, maneuvering, bastardry, fakery, perversity, corruption, fraud, blackmail, liability, malpractice, piracy, accountability, affairs, business, consulting, criminality, equity, evasion

misrepresentation

hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, slickness