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Grammar : Noun

Définition of hush money

noun bribe

Example sentences :

He thought his hush money might fairly be considered his own secret.
Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown

Genslinger, after pocketing the Governor's hush money, had "sold him out."
Extract from : « The Octopus » by Frank Norris

But it isn't a loan, or hush money, or anything of the sort;—just hope money.
Extract from : « Sunlight Patch » by Credo Fitch Harris

They would call it, and perhaps rightly, hush money to his conscience.
Extract from : « Lifted Masks » by Susan Glaspell

But it is notorious that peculations, hush money, and bribes from privates often swell his income to ten times that amount.
Extract from : « A Little Garrison » by Fritz von der Kyrburg

And that's why he wanted to kill off his Peruvians—they knew too much; probably were trying to bleed him for hush money.
Extract from : « The Pathless Trail » by Arthur O. (Arthur Olney) Friel

Hush money varies according to the magnitude of the concern, from 250 to 1000 per annum.
Extract from : « The History of Gambling in England » by John Ashton

You want to give me hush money to swallow down an unrightness that burns my flesh?
Extract from : « Hungry Hearts » by Anzia Yezierska

Said he was afraid it would lead him to accept ‘dirty money’—you know, hush money—from real wrongdoers.
Extract from : « Whispers at Dawn » by Roy J. Snell

He gave her husband six maunds of rupees as hush money, so the cheat burnt the corpse and returned home laden with spoil.
Extract from : « Santal Folk Tales » by A. Campbell

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