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conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
clandestine intelligence operations
cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines
secret sales of arms
a secret agent
an undercover investigation
hole-and-corner intrigue
surreptitious mobilization of troops
secret missions
underground resistance
How To Use hush-hush In A Sentence
- Apparently there's a very hush-hush project under way up north.
- Adoption is no longer a hush-hush affair and there are even those who are willing to consider it an alternative to biological parenthood.
- Now, these were supposed to be very hush-hush talks.
- Of course it was all kept hush-hush, because we did not want to tell the Germans they had had a success.
- She lost 25 pounds, but was able somehow to keep her illness hush-hush from almost everyone, including her three sons.
- ‘There are a few people who are interested, but it's all hush-hush,’ one said this week.
- The subjects of hush-hush all-girls' conversations were now discussed in the open.
- `Laser microscopy, he's involved in a government research project, it's all very hush-hush. FALLEN WOMEN
- A source told the magazine, "It's very hush-hush," adding the 39-year-old stylist is "telling people she can't travel. Rachel Zoe Pregnant?
- The script's been so hush-hush that we weren't shown the script until after making a partial commitment. SUMMER OF SECRETS