Sentence examples for shenanigans from inspiring English sources

The word "shenanigans" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an informal word that means "mischievous behavior" or "clandestine activities". For example, you could say, "I know there's been some sort of shenanigans going on around here, but no one will tell me what it is."

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shenanigans

noun

Mischievous play, especially by children.

  • Billy and Tom are playing noisily upstairs again. They're up to their usual shenanigans.

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But next to the steady diet of Jersey shenanigans and rampaging teen moms MTV feeds its constituency, the Skins ensemble can't help but seem a little smaller than life.

One poet who has stayed notably removed from all such shenanigans is Simon Armitage, who has stressed in his Oxford application that he is "a self-schooled poet who views poetry from a hill above a Yorkshire village" (which sounds a bit like Ted Hughes, and scandal followed him everywhere, but still).

Emerging breathless and dazed back into Bestival without a drop of Guinness in me, it dawns that Shenanigans is actually a theatrical art happening designed by the Tourism Ireland to make going to Ireland seem like a riot of a time.

Having sucked in millions with soapy shenanigans, he's hit them with serious issues not spoken about in other dramas.

People in rooms, getting up to domestic shenanigans.

In honour of Verdi's and Shakespeare's "globe of impurity", the magnificently gluttonous Sir John Falstaff (sung and acted with brilliant, gleeful energy and insight by Johanthan Veira), I enjoyed a San Miguel during act two's shenanigans, as Ford and the Merry Wives end up dumping Sir John in the Thames.

Morrison's hide and seek shenanigans this week allowed him to avoid serious and open discussion of the solution, sitting in plain view, to his pension problem: the family home.

The outside looked like a pub, anyway – Shenanigans it was called, a dilapidated sort of an establishment just downwind of Lionel Richie.

Bed-time shenanigans will be discouraged by the house lights remaining on all night – though guests will be offered earplugs and eye masks – and 24-hour CCTV monitoring.

He became notorious for secret police shenanigans, and the US suspected his coterie of being in cahoots with the former KGB.

Commentators who marvelled at his 20 years in charge now tut and shake their heads.Suddenly, GE stands accused of all sorts of shenanigans.

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