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The Church would “deal with the families in as limited way as possible, and pay them hush money.”
He wants “more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.”
Plumbers, hush money, enemies list, smoking-gun tape, the whole nine yards.
The employee described it as a kind of hush money, making staffers disinclined to question dubious company practices.
He evidently has no suspicion, or he would have come to us for hush-money long ago.
At such a moment then, called our ladies-legatees, clamorous for hush-money.
His father looked at him with a countenance full of disgust, and answered grimly: "Oh, it's hush-money you're after, is it?"
Said he was afraid it would lead him to accept ‘dirty money’—you know, hush money—from real wrongdoers.
Will the bell-boy who works for tips grow up to be a policeman who accepts hush-money from the corner saloon-keeper?
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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hush money, such as: kickback, blackmail, extortion, graft, and payola.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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