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It can be used to describe secrecy or confusion, often in a context involving deceit or hidden motives. Example: "The negotiations were conducted in a hugger-mugger manner, leaving everyone unsure of the true intentions." Alternatives include "secrecy" and "mystery."
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hugger-mugger
adjective
Secret, clandestine, sly.
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There's hugger-mugger for you.
Well, such is life when hugger-mugger palls.
Tall buildings gather, hugger-mugger, along the edges of canals.
Trees march by night, hugger-mugger in the darkness.
Other clients used to worry that the pair were still too hugger-mugger.
Hugger-mugger takes a lot of explaining, a lot of diagramming.
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Or – if you want to go really meta-hugger-mugger here – it might also be that Emanuel's opponents helped get this story in print, the better to undercut him.
The gracefully unfolding, vamp-rooted Serralves and Argüelles' own Hugger Mugger have a laid-back, Andy Sheppard-like warmth, the tunes are terrific, whether full-on or vaporously misty.
A powerful stable owner hires our hero detective, Spenser, to find out who is threatening his prize horse, Hugger Mugger.
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