Definition

1. Adjective:
   • (of information or news) suppressed or kept secret, especially through influence or authority: Describes something that has been deliberately concealed from public knowledge, often to avoid scandal or controversy.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The details of the incident remained hushed-up for years.
  • There were rumors of a hushed-up agreement between the companies.

Advanced Usage

• "to be hushed-up": to be in a state of having been suppressed.
  • The scandal was quickly hushed-up to protect the institution's reputation.
• "a hushed-up affair": an event or situation that has been kept secret.
  • The whole matter was a hushed-up affair known only to a few insiders.

Variants and Related Words

• Hush (verb): to make quiet or to suppress.
  • They tried to hush the rumors.
• Hush-hush (adjective): highly secret or confidential.
  • The project is very hush-hush.

Synonyms

• Suppressed: prevented from being disclosed or circulated.
• Covered up: concealed, especially something illegal or embarrassing.
• Concealed: kept secret; hidden.

Related Phrases

• To hush something up (phrasal verb): to prevent something from becoming publicly known.
  • The administration moved to hush up the financial discrepancies.

Adjective

1. (used of information or news) kept secret by using influence
   • hushed-up stories sometimes leak out