monkeyshines

Example Sentences

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This weekend, anyway, they preferred watching more serious monkeyshines of the Planet of the Apes species.

From Time • Aug. 7, 2011

To make the point crystal clear, Castello Branco's tough old War Minister Artur da Costa e Silva went on TV last week to remind everyone that the military will stand for no monkeyshines.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nelson at once disowned the report, ordered Libbey fired for talking out of turn, gathered the whole steel branch around him to promise no more monkeyshines.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fumbling seductions and moneyed monkeyshines fill Donleavy's tall tale of a rich and dreamy young man wandering aimlessly through Paris, Dublin and London.

From Time Magazine Archive

And I don't aim to take no back-talk from a wall-eyed, long-legged, chuckle-headed brat; that's hired to help his poor old dad and who spends his time cuttin' monkeyshines with a dorg.

From Further Adventures of Lad by Terhune, Albert Payson