hugger-mugger
Example Sentences
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A ripe era for wartime espionage makes for a hugger-mugger entertainment in Lou Ye’s black-and-white historical drama “Saturday Fiction.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2022
Cornwall, a cottage in a dark hollow surrounded by woods in the hugger-mugger days following the birth of my first son, our horizon hidden behind fat dark rain clouds, November, mud, puddles, bitter winds.
From The Guardian ● May 23, 2020
His smile when he poses with voters is a rictus, he ducks fund-raising calls, and he lacks patience for the backroom hugger-mugger required to pass legislation.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2018
It conveys the hugger-mugger of old and new better than any of the dire pronouncements that keep tumbling out of Mr. Carson’s mouth.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2015
For much of the last century most Mayanists believed that at its height—200 to 900 a.d., roughly speaking—the Maya realm was divided into a hugger-mugger of more or less equivalent city-states.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
