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Definition of "hush money" []

  • Informal A bribe paid to keep something secret. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "hush money" in a sentence
  • "The people at the head of News International are the same people who paid hush money to conceal evidence of criminality within their own company and who led a news organisation which – according to the PCC chair, Peta Buscombe – lied to the regulator."
  • "You want to give me hush money to swallow down an unrightness that burns my flesh?"