skulduggery vs trickery

skulduggery and trickery both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
skulduggery	Yes	No	No	No
trickery	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, skulduggery and trickery are synonyms defined as:

skulduggery and trickery: verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

Other synonyms of skulduggery include hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skullduggery, slickness.

skulduggery (noun)	trickery (noun)
verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way	the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
	verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way