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