All monkey business synonyms

noun monkey business

• absurdity — the quality or state of being absurd; nonsense
• disobedience — lack of obedience or refusal to comply; disregard or transgression.
• foolishness — resulting from or showing a lack of sense; ill-considered; unwise: a foolish action, a foolish speech.
• hanky-panky — unethical behavior; deceit: When the bank teller bought an expensive car and house, they suspected there might be some hanky-panky going on.
• high jinks — boisterous celebration or merrymaking; unrestrained fun: The city is full of conventioneers indulging in their usual high jinks.
• horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
• inanity — lack of sense, significance, or ideas; silliness.
• insanity — the condition of being insane; a derangement of the mind. Synonyms: dementia, lunacy, madness, craziness, mania, aberration.
• lunacy — insanity; mental disorder.
• misbehavior — improper, inappropriate, or bad behavior.
• mischief — conduct or activity that playfully causes petty annoyance.
• monkeyshine — Usually, monkeyshines. a frivolous or mischievous prank; monkey business.
• nonsense — words or language having little or no sense or meaning.
• poppycock — nonsense; bosh.
• prank — a trick of an amusing, playful, or sometimes malicious nature.
• silliness — weak-minded or lacking good sense; stupid or foolish: a silly writer.
• stupidity — the state, quality, or fact of being stupid.
• craziness — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
• ludicrous — causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable: a ludicrous lack of efficiency.
• tommyrot — nonsense; utter foolishness.
• absurdness — utterly or obviously senseless, illogical, or untrue; contrary to all reason or common sense; laughably foolish or false: an absurd explanation.
• antics — Antics are funny, silly, or unusual ways of behaving.
• buffoonery — Buffoonery is foolish behaviour that makes you laugh.
• carrying-on — unconventional or questionable behaviour
• foolery — foolish action or conduct.
• hokey-pokey — hocus-pocus; trickery.
• irresponsibility — said, done, or characterized by a lack of a sense of responsibility: His refusal to work shows him to be completely irresponsible.
• mischief-maker — a person who causes mischief, especially one who stirs up discord, as by talebearing.