huggermugger
Example Sentences
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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
