Crossword clues for cover-up
cover-up
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. An attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake.
WordNet
n. concealment that attempts to prevent something scandalous from becoming public
Wikipedia
A cover-up is an attempt, whether successful or not, to conceal evidence of wrongdoing, error, incompetence or other embarrassing information. In a passive cover-up, information is simply not provided; in an active cover-up, deception is used.
The expression is usually applied to people in positions of authority, such as police, who abuse their power to avoid or silence criticism or to deflect guilt of wrongdoing. Those who initiate a cover-up (or their allies) may be responsible for a misdeed, a breach of trust or duty, or a crime.
While the terms are often used interchangeably, cover-up involves withholding incriminatory evidence, while whitewash involves releasing misleading evidence.
A tattoo cover-up is one of two options for removing an unwanted tattoo, the other being removal. Temporary cover-up options include concealing or hiding the tattoo with makeup or a tattoo-cover-up sleeve.
Covering up an unwanted tattoo is cheaper than tattoo removal.
Poorly applied, faded, or light tattoos are the easiest to cover and can only be covered up using the same or darker ink. White ink may sometimes be applied to lighten the old tattoo before proceeding with the cover-up.
Cover-ups could completely hide the old tattoo with a new design, or the cover-up could incorporate elements or the whole of the existing tattoo.
Many employers have no visible tattoo policies but allow for temporary cover-ups using makeup or cover-up sleeves.
Usage examples of "cover-up".
With cover-up men absent, Furbish could leave the Maribar as safely as he had come there.
Last night, Hawkeye had learned that Koker Hosch was going on a cover-up job.
She wears a kanga cloth of cotton, the type sold to tourists as a cover-up.
A dab of cover-up under her eyes, a smidge of brown liner and mascara, a slick of pink gloss on her lips.
That produced a result that Duke Unrig had always wanted to avoid - action from the cover-up crew that the big-shot had posted in the vicinity.
All through, it was a game of cover-up and the most cooperative persons--Jane Verril for example-- might be leading anybody into eventual destruction through the cancel-off process that seemed so greatly in vogue.
Jake could see the two of them huddled like thieves on the bridge, plotting every detail of the antismoking campaign and the subsequent disinformation cover-up to deflect the outrage of the addicted.
All unintentionally, he had just given Burkitt the excuse for a cover-up that he might have needed.
Over it, she wore an overscaled white cotton cover-up that she had bought a week earlier.
Omega Team, a supersecret government office that handles such delicacies as political assassinations, interplanetary meddling, and the necessary cover-ups, great and small.
I were to call the other networks with that request, not only would they turn it down, but they would report on the air that CBA News 116 ARTHUR HAILEY had attempted to arrange a cover-up.
Some of the redoubts hid clues that had once fed wild theories of government cover-ups and alien visitations.
Air Force officers and civilian scientists thinking back about it in later years might very well conclude that the government had engineered a UFO cover-up.
The days of explanation, questions and answers, the tightrope walk across the politics of cleanup and cover-up had taken more out of her than the sustained chant-shape.
London was a backdrop for cries of murder muffled in the fog, its soft claxons, its hum of voices and occasional shouts, its Bovril and Wrigley's peeking through curtains of mist, all a cover-up for ill will and private acts of treachery.