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Examples of shenanigan in a Sentence
students engaging in youthful shenanigans on the last day of school
an act of vandalism that went way beyond the usual shenanigans at summer camp
Recent Examples of shenanigan from the Web
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The original reality-show sensation signed off in 2012 after six seasons of fights, hookups and boozy summertime shenanigans in Seaside Heights, N.J.
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There have been tough scoreless draws, five-goal blowouts, alleged bites and streamer shenanigans.
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Trump’s shenanigans have made a new piece of budget jargon suddenly relevant.
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Oddballs and Statehouse shenanigans Big year for bills: This year the Legislature printed 561 bills, the most since 2011.
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But Mel Brooks’ film debut about Broadway theater shenanigans bombed there.
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And so a fresh reversal augments the already considerable risk of non-compliance or other shenanigans from Pyongyang to undermine any agreement.
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Twitter user @blinkcabellos pointed out that Lorde must have been going through the thread from @tofakeit which highlights may other amazing pop culture shenanigans from over the years.
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The Takeaway: Of course, all of this focus on the shenanigans of Cambridge Analytica overlooks what might be the best part of the story: the name of the academic that the company used to pull all the data from Facebook in the first place.
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Did You Know?
The history of shenanigan is as tricky and mischievous as its meaning. Etymologists have some theories about its origins, but no one has been able to prove them. All we can say for certain is that the earliest known use of the word in print appeared in the April 25, 1855, issue of San Francisco's Town Talk. Although the "underhanded trick" sense of the word is oldest, the most common senses in use now are "tricky or questionable practices" (as in "political shenanigans") and "high-spirited behavior" (as in "youthful shenanigans").
Origin and Etymology of shenanigan
First Known Use: 1854
in the meaning defined at sense 1
See Words from the same yearshenanigan Synonyms
Synonyms
buffoonery, clownery, clowning, foolery, high jinks (also hijinks), horseplay, horsing around, monkey business, monkeying, monkeyshine(s), roughhouse, roughhousing, skylarking, tomfoolery;
Related Words
childishness, clownishness, foolishness, funning, jesting, joking, nonsense, silliness, waggery;
boisterousness, rambunctiousness, rowdiness, rowdyism, devilry (or deviltry), impishness, knavery, mischief, mischievousness, prankishness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, trickery;
cavorting, frivolity, frolicking, gamboling (or gambolling), merrymaking, playfulness, revelry, roistering, romping, sporting, sportiveness;
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