NOUN
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a scandal that is kept secret
there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet
How To Use skeleton in the closet In A Sentence
- Writing two decades ago, Cornel West called Malcolm “the skeleton in the closet lodged in the racial memory of most black professionals.”
- Do you believe that every family has a skeleton in the closet?
- We've all got a skeleton in the closet somewhere that we don't want let out.
- Many families have a skeleton in the closet.
