Definitions
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- adjective kept secret; -- used of reports.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (used of information or news) kept secret by using influence
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Examples
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Three separate terrorist bomb attacks in the Black Sea republic of Dagestan killed four and wounded 44 policemen -- something that would have been hushed-up in the past.
Peter Worthington: Russia: Where Bigger Is Still Better Peter Worthington 2011
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Three separate terrorist bomb attacks in the Black Sea republic of Dagestan killed four and wounded 44 policemen -- something that would have been hushed-up in the past.
Peter Worthington: Russia: Where Bigger Is Still Better Peter Worthington 2011
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Concentration camp brothels remain a hushed-up chapter of the Nazi-era horrors.
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Concentration camp brothels remain a hushed-up chapter of the Nazi-era horrors.
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Anthrax vaccine; and I learned of several hushed-up hospital deaths due to the 2001
Sheila Weller: Time To Have a Little Talk About Those "Women's Magazines?" 2009
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Kurt Gödel's Unsung Discovery© hushed-up by his friend Einstein, if made public and acted upon with inherent Constitutional and Bill of Rights protective measures, would have sentenced the Bushites to the scrap-heap of non-history.
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When psychic investigator Eden realizes that the zombie army is converging on historic Read House, she draws a connection to the ghost of Caroline Read, who haunts the building trying to resolve a hushed-up 19th-century atrocity.
busy busy busy moriarty6 2007
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This is why the matter has been hushed-up, and a UKIP-resolution to have it debated at Strasburg has been resolutely kept off the assembly's agenda for the last three months.
Archive 2006-01-01 Thatsnews 2006
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As Ariah's children learn that their past is enmeshed with a hushed-up scandal involving radioactive waste, they must confront not only their personal history but America's murky past: the despoiling of the landscape, and the corruption and greed of the massive industrial expansion of the 1950s and 1960s.
The Falls: Summary and book reviews of The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates. 2004
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Everyone had heard about the hushed-up disaster at Yosemite: refugees so hungry they were eating eetees, who'd used some never-specified but terrifying eetee gewgaws to slaughter soldiers and loot their supplies.
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