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shenanigan

[shuh-nan-i-guhn] / ʃəˈnæn ɪ gən /




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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

Mind ye, now,” he cried to Kent, “we mane to have every foot of timber the contract calls for, an’ no shenanigan about ut!

From The Boss of Wind River by A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm


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