monkeyshines
Example Sentences
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This weekend, anyway, they preferred watching more serious monkeyshines of the Planet of the Apes species.
From Time ● Aug. 7, 2011
Collier's verbal monkeyshines are so adroit as to make the reader forget the paradox that while man may be like a monkey, a monkey is not like a man.
From Time Magazine Archive
Faulkner's neighbors were still more amazed when they saw the fruit of these monkeyshines.
From Time Magazine Archive
Martin warns that Promise Keepers must keep alert for all the usual pitfalls facing fast-growing revival movements: financial monkeyshines, personal malfeasance and demagoguery.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Run, then; an' if Job abuses you, just let me know it, an' I'll keep him from cuttin' up any monkeyshines."
From Toby Tyler Or, Ten Weeks with a Circus by James Otis
