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huggermugger

ADJECTIVE
secret
Synonyms
WEAK
backdoor backstairs camouflaged clandestine classified cloak-and-dagger close confidential covert cryptic discreet disguised dissembled dissimulated furtive hush-hush in ambush incognito inside restricted secretive sly sneak sneaky
ADVERB
secretly
Synonyms
WEAK
behind closed doors behind someone's back by stealth clandestinely confidentially covertly furtively hush-hush in camera in confidence in holes and corners in secret in strict confidence insidiously intimately o obscurely on the Q.T.
NOUN
secrecy
Synonyms
WEAK
clandestineness clandestinity concealment confidence confidentiality covertness dark darkness furtiveness hiding huggermuggery hush isolation mystery privacy reticence retirement seclusion secretiveness secretness silence solitude

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

As regards the name, I dare say it was something huggermugger in the mere sound—something that I classed, for no particular reason, with the dark and ignorant sort of words, such as "Obi" and "Hoodoo."

From Widdershins by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]