shenanigan
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A markup shenanigan nearly happened to me at a different Maryland dealer long ago when I used to finance my car purchases.
From Washington Post • Oct. 21, 2022
Some of the shenanigan plot lines go too far afield, but they’re saved by the show’s emotional grounding and perfect casting, its sense of intimacy and realism.
From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2022
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
“I had to Google what that thing was, the whole shenanigan was, what the meaning was,” he says.
From The Guardian • May 20, 2016
He never inclines to answer a question forthrightly, but to use irony, or evasion, or what the Hibernians call "shenanigan," rather than answer, if anyone asks him anything.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 25, 1892 by Various
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