shenanigan

Example Sentences

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Also, why isn’t the plural of shenanigan shenaniga?

From The Guardian • Sep. 16, 2020

After he was placed in jail following that latest shenanigan, it seemed as though there might be less opportunity for Manafort to embarrass himself through easily discovered efforts to monkey with his case.

From Slate • Jul. 11, 2018

We’re there in the forests and the boardrooms for each technological breakthrough, financial innovation and political shenanigan as Duke & Sons clear-cuts its way to a lucrative future.

From Washington Post • Jun. 6, 2016

That sort of shenanigan may not be the future of college sports, but we may be getting closer to the day when money isn’t a four-letter word for student-athletes.

From Time • Feb. 25, 2015

They went to extraordinary lengths in all sorts of grafting, in the sale of public real estate, in every "shenanigan" known to skillful low-grade politicians.

From The Forty-Niners A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado by White, Stewart Edward