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hush money
Example Sentences
That precipitated a congressional hearing, in which records were subpoenaed about cover-ups, hush money and deleted shadow logs.
It was hush money, basically—payment for signing a waiver that said I would never sue them or talk about any of this to the media and rival affiliates.
The Church would “deal with the families in as limited way as possible, and pay them hush money.”
He wants “more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.”
Plumbers, hush money, enemies list, smoking-gun tape, the whole nine yards.
The employee described it as a kind of hush money, making staffers disinclined to question dubious company practices.
He evidently has no suspicion, or he would have come to us for hush-money long ago.
At such a moment then, called our ladies-legatees, clamorous for hush-money.
His father looked at him with a countenance full of disgust, and answered grimly: "Oh, it's hush-money you're after, is it?"
Said he was afraid it would lead him to accept ‘dirty money’—you know, hush money—from real wrongdoers.
Will the bell-boy who works for tips grow up to be a policeman who accepts hush-money from the corner saloon-keeper?
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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