hush-hush

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hush-hush

adjective more hush-hush · most hush-hush

Secret, not spoken of (or spoken of only in hushed whispers between insiders). The spy program was very hush-hush: no-one ever spoke of it.

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uncountable secrecy; covert operation I find a very definite policy of hush-hush here about what Japan is doing […]

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@misc{hush_hush_2026,
  title = {hush-hush},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hush-hush},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}