monkey business

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Recent Examples of monkey business Orangutans: Bella and Segundo Relationship status: A blind date that didn't go so well Sometimes matchmaking can feel a bit like monkey business. Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 7 Feb. 2024 About 35 miles northwest of Chicago, there's some serious monkey business happening. Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 2 Sep. 2023 That's not monkey business. Clare Duffy, CNN, 16 Mar. 2021 And that’s no monkey business. Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2014 See All Example Sentences for monkey business
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Noun
  • The action anime feature for everyone who couldn’t get enough of the horseplay in The Two Towers has finally cantered onto Max.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Key speeches are faithfully delivered to an audience of two, not thousands; a scene of soldiers destructively revelling on a bridge is given a different spirit by ironic, out-of-time horseplay.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 8 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • His is a sort of erudite buffoonery that consistently tap-dances between clever, self-aware, and patently stupid.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2025
  • There is, in fact, real stagecraft along with the buffoonery.
    Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Tirhakah Love is a senior writer at New York Magazine and the host of the new evening newsletter Dinner Party, a daily email that touches on all things entertainment — that means film, television, music, tech, and gaming — plus politics and corporate clownery.
    Vulture, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The Winx Club live action is a big clownery!
    Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 25 Jan. 2021

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