Definition of Hushed-up

1. Adjective. (used of information or news) kept secret by using influence. "Hushed-up stories sometimes leak out"

Similar to: Suppressed

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hushed-up

husbands
hush
hush-hush
hush down
hush kit
hush kits
hush money
hush one's mouth
hush puppy
hush up
hushabied
hushabies
hushaby
hushabye
hushed
hushed-up (current term)
hushedly
husher
hushered
hushering
hushers
hushes
hushful
hushier
hushiest
hushing
hushings
hushion
hushions
hushpuppies

Literary usage of Hushed-up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Steps to Oratory: A School Speaker by Frank Townsend Southwick (1900)
"They whispered among themselves, and the coroner made out the verdict "apoplexy," and it was in some way hushed up. They laid her out in the depot, ..."

2. Diary of a Daly Débutante: Being Passages from the Journal of a Member of by Dora Knowlton Thompson Ranous (1910)
"Questions were asked, of course, but were hushed up in the usual mysterious manner. Her place knows her no more, but no one must mention her. ..."

3. Wife No. 19, Or the Story of a Life in Bondage: Being a Complete Exposé of by Ann Eliza Young (1875)
"The Story of a Fiendish Deed. — The People's Mouths Closed.— How the Dreadful Crime was Hushed Up. — Judge ..."

4. Wife No. 19, Or the Story of a Life in Bondage: Being a Complete Exposé of by Ann Eliza Young (1875)
"The Results of the Reformation. — The Story of a Fiendish Deed. — The People's Mouths Closed. — How the Dreadful Crime was Hushed Up. — Judge ..."

5. Wife No. 19, Or the Story of a Life in Bondage by Ann Eliza Young, John Bartholomew Gough, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (1876)
"The Results of the Reformation. — The Story of a Fiendish Deed. — The People's Mouths Closed. — How the Dreadful Crime was Hushed Up. — Judge ..."

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