hushed up
Example Sentences
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Relationships don’t falter because of hard things; they falter when the hard things are ignored and/or hushed up.
From Slate • Mar. 23, 2025
He added: "Unless the process is absolutely right, then there'll still be a lingering doubt that things have been hushed up or swept under a carpet."
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2025
In September 2013, he denied that he had hushed up the scandals.
From Reuters • Dec. 31, 2022
Military historian John Keegan, in his 1978 masterpiece “The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme,” explored the often decisive element of fear in warfare — a topic frequently hushed up.
From Washington Post • May 27, 2022
But of course four or five thousand people had seen the transformation and the affair could not possibly be hushed up.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
