How To Use Hugger-mugger In A Sentence
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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.
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But the rest are all hugger-mugger, and I like them that way.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Delia Sherman and Christopher Barzak on Interfictions 2
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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?
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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.
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they did it all hugger-mugger
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The room is a hugger-mugger of tables with a bar, and pictures of Iberians in pink knickerbockers doing painful things to ungulates.
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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)
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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.
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Inside, arranged hugger-mugger on a selection of chairs and boxes, are the NCO instructors.
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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.
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After Polonius and Ophelia have both died violently and been buried ‘in hugger-mugger,’ as Claudius tells Gertrude, the mistreatment of the dead is shocking indeed.
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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.
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I hated going hugger-mugger in the car because I wanted to read and this was impossible with elbows and knees stuck across your face.
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The party likes to style itself as a big tent, which goes some way towards explaining its obsession with inviting big business for a hugger-mugger under canvas at the Galway races.
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A hugger-mugger horizontal tenement of ugly, awkward, moulded plastic bathroom fittings bobbing in cess.
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A few degrees left, and the hugger-mugger of the Old Town resolved itself into an open garret window here, with orange curtains, or there, a ladder leaning precipitously from a roof up onto a disorderly row of chimney pots.
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And the plot wandered and annoyed, piling on new mystical hugger-mugger… but when it came to the end, it hit me like an anvil in the sternum.
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He successfully pursued this hugger-mugger strategy in 1810.
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Hugger-mugger is part of life, especially under modern political conditions.
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The hugger-mugger squalor endured by the planet's traveling billions.
Planes, Trains And Miseries
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Leon's sister Helene Mar had herself acted in the silent film era, then spent the rest of her life creating artistes - her hugger-mugger brother, her daughters, who became dancers, and pre-eminently, Johnny.
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It is a hugger-mugger bubbling pot of intrigue, smuggling, poverty, filth and some of the best food in Asia.
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He loved its hugger-mugger houses, the strange sea creatures that came up in baskets from the boats, the constant harbourside shouting.
THE MAIN CAGES
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Brown may have tried to sign this wretched Treaty hugger-mugger back in December, out of sight and out of mind, but the truth of the matter is that he is in fact an EU enthusiast who has played a leading part in not just the drawing up of this Treaty but also the gerrymander that is seeing it through the process of ratification.
Brown Takes Careful Aim At Foot
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he engaged in the hugger-mugger of international finance
