adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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'The Manhattan Project' was the insiders' name for the hush-hush project.
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His death was really hush-hush . It was so covered up that you wondered if it wasn't a suicide.
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The date and location of the operation were very hush-hush .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And this is meant to be hush-hush .
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As a matter of fact it was rather a hush-hush sort of business.
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Some sort of hush-hush oceanography, probably for oil.
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There was a hush-hush meeting with Eliot and I was to keep out of the way.
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What you two so impertinently called my hush-hush experi-ment.