huggermuggery

huggermuggery
(Roget's Thesaurus II) (or hugger-muggery) noun The habit, practice, or policy of keeping secrets: clandestineness, clandestinity, concealment, covertness, huggermugger, secrecy, secretiveness, secretness. See SHOW.

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  • clandestineness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The habit, practice, or policy of keeping secrets: clandestinity, concealment, covertness, huggermugger, huggermuggery, secrecy, secretiveness, secretness. See SHOW …   English dictionary for students

  • clandestinity — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The habit, practice, or policy of keeping secrets: clandestineness, concealment, covertness, huggermugger, huggermuggery, secrecy, secretiveness, secretness. See SHOW …   English dictionary for students

  • covertness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The habit, practice, or policy of keeping secrets: clandestineness, clandestinity, concealment, huggermugger, huggermuggery, secrecy, secretiveness, secretness. See SHOW …   English dictionary for students

  • huggermugger — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I (or hugger mugger) noun The habit, practice, or policy of keeping secrets: clandestineness, clandestinity, concealment, covertness, huggermuggery, secrecy, secretiveness, secretness. See SHOW. II (or hugger mugger)… …   English dictionary for students

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