Usually means: Deceptive or dishonest activities, behavior.
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  1. funny business: Merriam-Webster
  2. funny business: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. funny business: Collins English Dictionary
  4. funny business: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. funny business: Wiktionary
  6. funny business: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. funny business: Dictionary.com
  8. Funny Business (TV series): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. funny business: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. funny business: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. funny business: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

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Definitions from Wiktionary (funny business)

▸ noun:  Unethical behaviour.
▸ noun:  (slang) Sexual intercourse or other sexual activity.

Similar:
dirty business, monkey business, funny money, hanky-panky, vice, dirty trick, corruption, bad business, Enronomics, game, more...

Opposite:
seriousness, sincerity, honesty, integrity

Types:
shenanigans, hijinks, japes, tomfoolery, monkey business, larks, more...

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Similar:
dirty business, monkey business, funny money, hanky-panky, vice, dirty trick, corruption, bad business, Enronomics, game, more...

Opposite:
seriousness, sincerity, honesty, integrity

Types:
shenanigans, hijinks, japes, tomfoolery, monkey business, larks, more...



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