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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
How To Use hush-hush In A Sentence
- They diagnosed cystitis and then they diagnosed nephrolithiasis & then they diagnosed Malta fever with ovarian complications & then they went all hush-hush while they diagnosed a tuberculous infection so that I couldn't possibly guess what they were testing for. Another piece of the puzzle
- I put the photos away and I conduct a very hush-hush surveillance.
- The top-secret project was so hush-hush they were barred from even taking photographs.
- Main is also working on a hush-hush project involving a Scottish-based online games business and a couple of high-profile sports journalists.
- Getty Images Such a hush-hush approach might make sense were this a military campaign as the word cyberattack connotes. Cybercrime Comes to the IMF
- We didn't know where we were going to, it was very hush-hush.
- The big name acts are pretty hush-hush at the moment, but the line-up is guaranteed to read like the who's who of Aussie music.
- In the end he was forced to resign but it was all very hush-hush.
- Apparently there's a very hush-hush project under way up north. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
- As an altarboy, I remember the quaint, hush-hush ceremony of "churching" of new mothers Planet Atheism
