COVER-UP


Meaning of COVER-UP in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

People would suspect a cover-up if public hearings aren't held.

Some people suspect that government officials were involved in a cover-up of the incident.

The Watergate cover-up eventually led to Nixon's resignation.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Guilt is not a true emotion; it is a cover-up for other feelings which we feel we shouldn't have.

Soon there was a cover-up of the cover-up, because senior officers by then knew too much.

The cover-up lasts to this day, but its genesis is now unravelling.

The techniques of cover-up are old and familiar.

There is nothing less than a cultural cover-up about depression in men.

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