hugger-mugger

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hugger-mugger
Adjective
  • That will mean messy debates over taxes, benefits programs, the debt ceiling and other big-ticket items.
    Riley Beggin, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Faithful readers asked me to suggest replacements that wouldn't take 50 years to reach a decent size or cause problems like invasive roots or messy litter.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Taking over a century-old garden house hidden within Shanghai’s storied alleys, Samuel Gui Yang softly partitioned the space, seducing the audience yet making every one of them a clandestine voyeur.
    Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 1 Apr. 2025
  • In a display of gallows humor at the sloppiness of the leaders’ theoretically clandestine communication, people online quickly turned those symbols into memes, and renamed their own chats Houthi PC small group.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Social Security problems The chaotic situation around DOGE has raised concerns that federal programs such as Social Security that many Americans rely on could be impacted.
    Zac Anderson, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Carter arrives as a fumbling, awkward, lovable med student—the audience surrogate in the chaotic and intense environment of a fictional Chicago emergency ward.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Alan Ritchson says Reacher is the American James Bond Reacher works with DEA agents Susan Duffy (Cassidy) and Guillermo Villanueva (Roberto Montesinos) to go undercover in the rug-importing front, which is led by businessman Zachary Beck (Hall).
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 1 Apr. 2025
  • To investigate further, the DEA had five undercover officers visit his clinic to see whether Hollington would prescribe them medications without legit medical reasons between February and July 2022, prosecutors said.
    Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Then Gungnir covert sniper rifle seems like a bargain, relatively speaking, at just $12,867.
    Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • In the letter, Grassley wrote that the records would help shine a light on the Nazi planning of the covert escape routes.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Chicagoans will have no one to hold accountable at the ballot box when the buses don’t arrive and rail stations are filthy and crime-ridden.
    Forrest Claypool, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The plastic waste China received was filthy, much of it too dirty to be cleaned, shredded, and turned into new plastic.
    Scott W. Stern, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Access is another issue: The chief noted that the department had even faced blazes in underground storm drains.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
  • In closed briefings, Pentagon officials have acknowledged that there has been only limited success in destroying the Houthis’ vast, largely underground arsenal of missiles, drones and launchers, according to congressional aides and allies.
    Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Elsewhere is a cozy study for getting some work done, while both a private garden and a rooftop terrace serve as ideal spots for dining alfresco when the London weather decides to cooperate.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Rural communities could be unequally impacted Unlike the postal service, private companies do not have the same service obligations requiring delivery to rural or sparsely-populated areas – even at a loss.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
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“Hugger-mugger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hugger-mugger. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.

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