huggermugger

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The banality of it all — the huggermugger of Nixon’s conversations with his two top aides, H.R.

From Washington Post • May 26, 2021

Here, espionage mingles discreetly with classic British country-house huggermugger.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 1, 2019

Mr. Harding gives us a spy-novel-like sense of the tradecraft that Mr. Snowden and the journalists used, from encryption to old-school huggermugger meetings, but some mysterious gaps in the Hong Kong-to-Moscow story line remain.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2014

I don’t want a lot of technological huggermugger; I don’t really want to get bogged down in a lot of detail, you know?

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2011

Catherine, death comes to all, and yonder in the church-yard the poor dead lie together, huggermugger, and a man may not tell an archbishop from a rag-picker.

From The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages by Cabell, James Branch