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hanky-panky

noun as in extramarital affair

noun as in adultery

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Meanwhile, What Kind of Hanky-Panky Is Going on Over at the Department of Health and Human Services?

Those who are fasting must abstain from eating, drinking (even water), smoking, and hanky-panky of any sorts.

Clarkson wears four-inch Gucci sandals, a chic, black, off-the-rack Italian dress and red Hanky Panky underwear (so she says).

I knew from other reading that no firm had been more deeply involved in pre-1929 financial hanky-panky than it had.

I remember being shocked not by the explicit carnality but by the confusion and hanky-panky, and the unhappiness.

These scientists have worked miracles before which those of the ancient priests and magicians are mere tricks of hanky-panky.

If you play any hanky-panky tricks—look here, Da Souza, I'll kill you, sure!

Some hanky-panky with regimental money; every one knows how India plays the devil with a man's sense of right and wrong.

I'll put up with no hanky-panky work from Mrs. Cummers Portheris, my dear—and well she knows it!'

He had no idea I wasn't interested in his other hanky-panky, but could tell I had had a low blow.

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On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hanky-panky, such as: amour, chicane, chicanery, dalliance, deception, and devilry.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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