shenanigan

Example Sentences

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I take issue with the people who effectively have chalked this up to a boys-will-be-boys–type shenanigan.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2019

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

“I had to Google what that thing was, the whole shenanigan was, what the meaning was,” he says.

From The Guardian • May 20, 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

Wal, sir, I made up my mind that they warn’t going to come any shenanigan over me, and I struck the shortest line for Fort Severn.

From The Cave in the Mountain A Sequel to In the Pecos Country / by Lieut. R. H. Jayne by Ellis, Edward Sylvester