hushed-up
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7.5
- adjective
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ocultado
- In his book Genesis Revisited, Sitchin recounts a hushed-up event regarding the loss, in 1989, of a Soviet spacecraft, Phobos 2, sent to explore Mars and its moonlet Phobos.
- the hushed-up incident
Examples
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No prosecutor wanted to take on the case, and the military academy was only too happy to have it hushed up.
Fiction book (1996) -
Whatever he did in the past has obviously been hushed up.
Fiction book (1997) -
It's hushed up, taken care of by the social workers.
Fiction book (1996) -
No wonder it was so effectively hushed up.
Blog text (33) -
But the potentially devastating October Surprise was hushed up by Republicans.
Blog text (29) -
Everything was hushed up and miscommunicated long enough to get past election time.
Blog text (4) -
Broadly speaking, it was a series about how the rush to win the Cold War led the United States to pursue all sorts of awful things that would have shocked its populace had they not been hushed up for decades.
Blog text (3) -
Though the scandal was eventually hushed up, the report of the Brazza Mission suppressed, and the perpetrators released after a short time in prison, there was widespread outrage expressed in the newspapers and numerous fierce debates in the Chamber of Deputies.
Academic text (1990) -
The scandal involving the mayor was hushed up to protect his reputation.
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Details about the accident were hushed up to avoid public outrage.
Synonyms
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6.3
Working secretly to get information about people and groups
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1.1
A thing that is not easily seen or found
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6.8
Done secretly to avoid being seen or known
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8.2
Kept secret because it is illegal or not allowed
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6.0
Most people do not know about it
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6.2
Partly hidden or not said clearly
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5.8
Hiding true feelings or intentions so others do not know
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7.5
People keep it secret from most others to avoid being noticed
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8.5
Done secretly because people would disapprove
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4.2
Hidden so people do not know the true identity or purpose
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3.7
Hidden so people cannot see it
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7.2
Kept secret from the public, often about meetings or plans
Kept secret on purpose so people do not know about it
Done in a secret way to hide plans
A secret way of doing things to hide small dishonest acts
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Morphology
Etymology
The word hushed-up comes from the simple verb hush meaning 'be quiet' and the small word up, so it paints the picture of making something quiet. So to hush up something is to keep news or a problem hidden, often by people in charge.