skulduggery

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–noun

1. dishonorable proceedings; mean dishonesty or trickery: bribery, graft, and other such skulduggery. 

2. an instance of dishonest or deceitful behavior; trick. 



Also, skullduggery, sculduggery, scullduggery.





　

Even so, Steven Zaillian's film is faithful to Warren in that it centers not on Penn's Willie Stark, 1930s redneck do-gooder turned corrupt Louisiana governor, but on his cynical, ethically vacant right-hand man Jack Burden (Jude Law), who narrates Stark's rise from small-time pot stirrer to party stooge to self-made demagogue to, finally, a people's leader easily given over to the dark side of legislative [mal]feasance and backroom skulduggery. 



Zaillian proceeds in typical adapt-a-big-book fashion, condensing, telegraphing, and boiling down drama into info bytes, amid far too much smoky backlighting and a James Horner score that's so self-important you want to take out the timpani with a grenade launcher. 



stooge

喜劇裡的配角 (或丑角)





fib 

minor falsehood

"I told a fib about my [age]," Little Tom said.

falsehood

a statement distorts or suppresses the truth, 

in order to deceive

to tell a falsehood about one's ancestry in order to [gain] acceptance. 

bamboozle

Anna is continually [bamboozled] by the Trans-Siberians, a tribe whose every pleasantry [carries] a threat.

Sham