cover-up
Example Sentences
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Too often the result has been cover-up and delay with no meaningful sanctions.
Nixon resigned from office in August 1974 rather than face impeachment for his administration’s cover-up of its involvement in a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington.
From Seattle Times
A financial cover-up to keep a scandal away from the voters may have helped elect him president.
From Salon
The hush money and the cover-up of it, in the final weeks of a close presidential race, seem to have been a brazen violation of campaign finance rules.
From New York Times
If the movies have taught us anything, it’s that the cover-up is worse than the crime.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
