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adj. - (used of information or news) kept secret by using influence.

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Usage examples (26)
  • hushed-up stories sometimes leak out
  • Concentration camp brothels remain a hushed-up chapter of the Nazi-era horrors.
  • "I suppose," he said casually, "a fashionable school like this has plenty of carefully hushed-up scandals ----"
  • 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...
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