funny business
Example Sentences
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Hmm, any other funny business out there worth looking into …?
From Slate • Sep. 20, 2025
Wendy Liebman is a veteran of the funny business.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2024
In a joint interview with Harper's Bazar in 2019 the two claimed that there was “no funny business at all” during filming.
From Salon • Mar. 22, 2024
The consequence of so much funny business is that there’s not much to ponder about the characters’ inner lives, which makes Ibsen far less interesting to watch.
From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2022
“A funny business, that. The latch on the cage wasn’t damaged at all. It’d simply been opened, and I know I closed it up properly.”
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
