ADVERB
-
in secrecy
they did it all hugger-mugger
ADJECTIVE
-
in utter disorder
a disorderly pile of clothes -
conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
hole-and-corner intrigue
clandestine intelligence operations
cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines
secret sales of arms
a secret agent
an undercover investigation
surreptitious mobilization of troops
secret missions
underground resistance
NOUN
-
a state of confusion
he engaged in the hugger-mugger of international finance
How To Use hugger-mugger In A Sentence
- Socially, the fabric is often as fragmented as the physical one, with immigrants from rural areas or from abroad mixed hugger-mugger with some of the least privileged traditional citizens.
- But the rest are all hugger-mugger, and I like them that way. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Delia Sherman and Christopher Barzak on Interfictions 2
- And how come when we first meet Tomas in his young monkhood, as when we last see him after the erotic hugger-mugger, he is naked except for a diaper?
- It has taken a little over a fortnight for a large group of adults to regress to that institutional hugger-mugger one first encountered at boarding school at the age of eight.
- they did it all hugger-mugger
- The room is a hugger-mugger of tables with a bar, and pictures of Iberians in pink knickerbockers doing painful things to ungulates.
- A kind of hugger-mugger inquest produced a declaration that Clarke's death was not caused by the blow he had received from his assailant, and in consequence, "whereas a doubt had arisen in our royal breast," the King formally pardoned the murderer by royal {130} proclamation. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)
- He is not a heartless man, but he insisted that folk who lived hugger-mugger 12 feet below sea level and refused to budge, even when the mayor ordered them out, should not be surprised to drown.
- Inside, arranged hugger-mugger on a selection of chairs and boxes, are the NCO instructors.
- This may have helpfully covered up some of the (to rephrase Proust) intermittences of the art, but it also increased the sense of hugger-mugger.
