Thesaurus / hanky panky
FEEDBACK- as inlove affair
- as inmonkey business
- as inshenanigans
- as inextramarital affair
- as inbusiness
- as incheat
- as inchicanery
- as inindirection
- as inshadiness
- as inshiftiness
- as inslyness
- as insneakiness
- as intrickiness
- as inunderhandedness
- as invictimization
- as inadultery
- as indalliance
- as inaffair
- as indishonesty
- as indouble-dealing
- as infraud
- as inhanky-panky
synonyms for hanky panky
synonyms for hanky panky
- adultery
- affair
- courtship
- dalliance
- devotion
- fling
- flirtation
- infidelity
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- love
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- affair of the heart
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- amour
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- hanky-panky
- illicit love
- intrigue
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- seduction
- sexual relationship outside of marriage
- thing
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- absurdity
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- carrying-on
- clowning around
- craziness
- disobedience
- foolery
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- hanky-panky
- high jinks
- hokey-pokey
- horse feathers
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- inanity
- insanity
- irresponsibility
- ludicrousness
- lunacy
- misbehavior
- mischief
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- monkeyshine
- nonsense
- poppycock
- prank
- silliness
- stupidity
- tommyrot
- antics
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- frolicsomeness
- gag
- horseplay
- misbehavior
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- naughtiness
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- hanky-panky
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- fake
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- racket
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- dirty pool
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- fast one
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- hanky-panky
- run around
- shady deal
- shell game
- snow job
- dishonesty
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- cheating
- chicane
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- dodge
- double-crossing
- double-dealing
- feint
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- furtiveness
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- skullduggery
- sophistry
- subterfuge
- wiles
- fourberie
- hanky-panky
- sharp practice
- surreptitiousness
- underhandedness
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- bunk
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- corruption
- craft
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- criminality
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- cunning
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- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hocus-pocus
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
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- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
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- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
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- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
- fourberie
- hanky-panky
- improbity
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- infamy
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- hanky-panky
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- duplicity
- faithlessness
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- fraud
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- graft
- guile
- hocus-pocus
- infamy
- infidelity
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- stealing
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- wiliness
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- hanky-panky
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- stealing
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- wiliness
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- improbity
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- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- dishonesty
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hocus-pocus
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- shiftiness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
- fourberie
- hanky-panky
- improbity
- sharp practice
- underhandedness
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
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- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- dishonesty
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fourberie
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hanky-panky
- hocus-pocus
- improbity
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- sharp practice
- shiftiness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
- deception
- artifice
- baloney
- bunco
- chicanery
- con
- deceit
- dodge
- double-dealing
- fake
- fix
- flimflam
- fraud
- gyp
- hoax
- humbug
- hustle
- imposture
- jazz
- jive
- put on
- racket
- ripoff
- scam
- sham
- spoof
- sting
- stunt
- swindle
- trickery
- whitewash
- bamboozlement
- bill of goods
- con game
- cozening
- dirty pool
- dirty trick
- fast one
- fast shuffle
- hanky-panky
- hoaxing
- run around
- shady deal
- shell game
- snow job
- infidelity
- affair
- cheating
- fling
- fornication
- immorality
- matinee
- relationship
- thing
- carrying-on
- extracurricular activity
- hanky-panky
- playing around
- two-timing
- fling
- affair
- relationship
- seduction
- toying
- a little on the side
- amorous play
- carrying-on
- fooling around
- frolicking
- hanky-panky
- messing around
- working late at office
- liaison
- relationship
- affaire
- amour
- fling
- intimacy
- intrigue
- love
- rendezvous
- romance
- carrying-on
- extracurricular activity
- goings-on
- hanky-panky
- playing around
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- two-timing
- chicanery
- corruption
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- deceit
- duplicity
- falsehood
- fraud
- graft
- infidelity
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- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- craft
- crookedness
- cunning
- double-dealing
- faithlessness
- falsity
- flimflam
- fraudulence
- guile
- hocus-pocus
- infamy
- insidiousness
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- slyness
- stealing
- swindle
- trickiness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
- fourberie
- hanky-panky
- improbity
- sharp practice
- chicane
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- deceit
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- dishonesty
- duplicity
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- hypocrisy
- mendacity
- perfidy
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- two-timing
- blackmail
- deceit
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- fast one
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- fourberie
- hanky-panky
- hoodwinking
- sharp practice
- song and dance
- swindling
- amour
- chicane
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- dalliance
- deception
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- dirty pool
- double-dealing
- fling
- flirtation
- fooling around
- fourberie
- fraud
- funny business
- hankie-pankie
- hokey-pokey
- knavery
- liaison
- love affair
- machinations
- mischief
- monkey business
- romance
- sexual activity
- sharp practice
- shenanigans
- skullduggery
- subterfuge
- trickery
antonyms for hanky panky
MOST RELEVANT
- artlessness
- constancy
- faithfulness
- fidelity
- forthrightness
- frankness
- goodness
- honesty
- honor
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- loyalty
- openness
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How to use hanky panky in a sentence
These scientists have worked miracles before which those of the ancient priests and magicians are mere tricks of hanky-panky.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORDI brought a hanky Im hemstitching for Mother in school and worked on it a little while in between lunch and class.
BETTY LEE, FRESHMANDAVID GOODGER (GOODGER@PYTHON.ORG)If you play any hanky-panky tricks—look here, Da Souza, I'll kill you, sure!
A MILLIONAIRE OF YESTERDAYE. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIMSome hanky-panky with regimental money; every one knows how India plays the devil with a man's sense of right and wrong.
ALONENORMAN DOUGLASMy head had been sewn up, also my lip, and a nice tight bandage replaced the hanky.
FANNY GOES TO WARPAT BEAUCHAMPI'll put up with no hanky-panky work from Mrs. Cummers Portheris, my dear—and well she knows it!'
AN AMERICAN GIRL IN LONDONSARA JEANNETTE DUNCANHe had no idea I wasn't interested in his other hanky-panky, but could tell I had had a low blow.
THE MISPLACED BATTLESHIPHARRY HARRISON (AKA HENRY MAXWELL DEMPSEY)There was no hanky-panky about his promotion either—no petticoat influence; it was all sheer merit and courage.
THE KINGDOM ROUND THE CORNERCONINGSBY DAWSON"We'll be making straight for the Silver Lake, where the hanky was found," explained Mackintosh as they set off.
THE FIERY TOTEMARGYLL SAXBYThe time will no' be lost, for Haggis and me will set oot on a wee scouting expedition to the place where we found yon hanky.
THE FIERY TOTEMARGYLL SAXBY