hanky-panky
Example Sentences
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Technically, she was indicted for bank fraud relating to alleged hanky-panky on a mortgage application.
From Slate • Oct. 11, 2025
She seethed over snubbed paella, screeched about George’s hanky-panky in the parental bed and laid out the spread for screen husband Frank’s idiosyncratic holiday, Festivus.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 2, 2022
Steffen doesn’t look wholly convincing as he knocks it away, but the whistle goes for some hanky-panky in the six-yard box.
From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2021
One CME veteran told Cohan, “There is definite hanky-panky going on, to the world’s financial markets’ detriment.
From Salon • Oct. 22, 2019
Although she was petite, I quickly discovered that my shorthand teacher was definitely not one to tolerate any hanky-panky.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
