Definitions for hush-money

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Hush-Money is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 231 anagrams from letters in hush-money (-ehhmnosuy).

Definitions for hush-money

noun

  1. a bribe to keep someone silent about something, especially to keep the receiver from exposing a scandal.

Origin of hush-money

First recorded in 1700-10

Examples for hush-money

He thought his hush money might fairly be considered his own secret.

Plumbers, hush money, enemies list, smoking-gun tape, the whole nine yards.

But it is notorious that peculations, hush money, and bribes from privates often swell his income to ten times that amount.

He wants “more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.”

And that's why he wanted to kill off his Peruvians—they knew too much; probably were trying to bleed him for hush money.

They would call it, and perhaps rightly, hush money to his conscience.

The Church would “deal with the families in as limited way as possible, and pay them hush money.”

The employee described it as a kind of hush money, making staffers disinclined to question dubious company practices.

Genslinger, after pocketing the Governor's hush money, had "sold him out."

But it isn't a loan, or hush money, or anything of the sort;—just hope money.

Word Value for hush-money
Scrable

10

Words with friends

9

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