hushing up
Keeping secrets quiet
Hushing up is suppressing or concealing information that might cause embarrassment or scandal: The company was accused of hushing up safety violations.
The phrase implies deliberate effort to keep something quiet, often something the public has a right to know.
Officials hush up misconduct; families hush up secrets.
- quietingMaking something still
- silenceTotal lack of sound
- concealmentAct of hiding something
- suppressionForcible prevention or concealment
- keeping mumStaying deliberately silent
scandal · denial · plausible deniability · obstruction · secrecy · behind closed doors · perjury · burying · non-disclosure · cover-up · swept under the rug · privacy · gagging · whitewashing · stonewalling · turning a blind eye · discretion · gaslighting
hushing upexposing
Making something known
revealing · disclosing · uncovering · bringing to light · divulging
hushing uppublicizing
Making information widely known
spotlighting · trumpeting · highlighting · announcing · amplifying
hushing upwhistleblowing
Exposing hidden wrongdoing internally
reporting · investigating · holding accountable · coming clean · full disclosure